Tag: inequality
Can we automate inequality out of automation?
What explains the sinking incomes of so many American workers today: automation.
Forget the huddled masses. Bring us billionaires.
The land of the free and the home of the brave has become a tax haven for the vile and the vicious.
Where’s the ‘justice vaccine’ against the pandemic of system-smashing scofflaws?
Why have no apt penalties for sedition or treason yet been applied to insurrection-inciters or enabling officials?
How to ensure global debates about inequality are informed by views...
In the last decade inequality has been placed at the centre of the agenda for global social and economic policy. This has...
The climate stat we can’t afford to overlook: CEO pay
“The economy would suffer no harm if CEOs were paid less.”
An inequality even conservative justices can’t swallow
A unanimous Supreme Court throws a monkey-wrench into a college sports scene that’s minting mega millionaires.
Report: Silver Spoon Oligarchs: How America’s 50 largest inherited-wealth dynasties accelerate...
Fifty dynastic billionaire families hold as much wealth as the bottom half of U.S. families. Their wealth grew at ten times the rate of ordinary families over the last 40 years.
The billionaires who couldn’t kick straight
America’s super rich and their European pals have failed spectacularly in a scheme to kill global football’s most egalitarian traditions.
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The worse the chaos that results, the sooner the eventual revulsion and turnaround
A too gullible population let itself be bamboozled.
Tlaib, ACLU, and advocates warn H.R. 9495 could empower Trump to silence nonprofits and...
Progressives and civil rights groups sound the alarm over legislation that could allow President-elect Trump to strip nonprofits of their tax-exempt status without evidence, threatening free speech and democracy.
David Huitema confirmed as ethics Czar amid fears of Trump’s return and conflict of...
As Trump’s second term looms, the Senate confirmed David Huitema to lead the Office of Government Ethics. Advocates praise the move, but critics warn of a tough road ahead for government accountability.
Calls mount to release ethics report as Matt Gaetz’s Attorney General nomination sparks bipartisan...
Matt Gaetz’s abrupt resignation following his nomination as Attorney General has raised ethical and legal questions. Lawmakers and watchdogs demand answers as concerns mount over Gaetz’s past investigations and his potential confirmation.
Trump’s plans to weaponize the military against protesters and immigrants face fewer legal constraints
Amid threats to deploy federal troops for mass deportations and protest suppression, advocates warn that recent legal shifts may grant unprecedented latitude to a second Trump administration.