(2019-07-07). We Have the Money to Fix Our Food System. truthout.org Poverty is expensive, but fixing it doesn't have to be — at least not compared to the status quo. | The Institute for Policy Studies and the Poor People's Campaign recently released a Moral Budget, and it's a veritable treasure trove of illuminating data proving that point. | They propose we could easily cut $350 billion from the annual military budget —…
(2019-07-07). US Can't Ignore That Climate Crisis Will Force 120 Million People Into Poverty. commondreams.org Climate change is making headlines this summer with record temperatures, devastating floods, and climate-related migration. But in the U.S., mainstream discussions about climate change are remarkably out of touch with the scale of the crisis and the economic and social upheaval it will bring. Political leaders have failed to put forward a vision for avoiding catastrophic consequences or protecting those most affected.
(2019-07-07). We Have the Money to Fix Our Food System. commondreams.org Poverty is expensive, but fixing it doesn't have to be—at least not compared to the status quo.
(2019-07-07). Jeffrey Epstein Jailed on New Charges of Sex-Trafficking Minors. truthdig.com NEW YORK — Wealthy financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was arrested Saturday in New York on new sex-trafficking charges involving allegations that date to the early 2000s, according to law enforcement officials. | Epstein, a hedge fund manager who once counted as friends former President Bill Clinton, Britain's Prince Andrew and President Donald Trump, was taken into federal custody and is expected to appear Monday in Manhattan federal court, three law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. | One of the officials said Epstein is accused of paying underage girls for massages and m…
(2019-07-06). The debate over inequality. mronline.org 
The debate over inequality has become hotter world-wide. While Trump had introduced substantial tax cuts for the rich in 2017, and Britain's Boris Johnson, the front-runner to succeed Teresa May, has promised to do the same if he becomes Prime Minister, there are strong proposals for taxing the rich which have also been mooted. Bernie […] | Source
(2019-07-06). Australian Labor Party backs government's tax cuts for the wealthy. wsws.org By voting for the massive tax cuts, Labor further repudiated its bogus election rhetoric against "the big end of town" and for a "fair go" for working people.
(2019-07-06). Job growth bounces back in June, but unemployment edges upward. nationofchange.org 
The annualized rate of wage growth in the second quarter was just 2.7 percent. | The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy added 224,000 jobs in June, a sharp bounce back from the revised figure of 72,000 jobs reported for May. With a small downward revision to the April data, this brings the three-month average to 171,000. The average hourly wage is up 3.1 percent from the year-ago level. There is evidence of further slowing, with the annualized rate of increase from the first quarter to the second quarter at just 2.7 percent. | There was little change in the household survey. Unemployment edge…
(2019-07-05). How businesses have changed since the #metoo movement. nationofchange.org Equal treatment for women in the workplace has been a point of contention since the advent of the women's rights movement a half-century ago. In more recent years, in-person and online activism have made it possible for women and allies to stand against abuse, harm, harassment and inequality with the #MeToo movement. Studies reveal that 81 …
(2019-07-05). Billionaire US coal magnate & 6 others die in helicopter crash off Bahamas. rt.com 
A wealthy West Virginia coal mine owner, his daughter and five others died when their helicopter crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Bahamas en route to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
(2019-07-05). Born on the 5th of July. counterpunch.org 
The unifying factor behind environmental decline, an extractive health care system, mind-numbing work for poverty wages, perpetual wars and increasingly intrusive and assertive commercial relations, is capitalism. Of course, the term is an abstraction, shorthand for a belief system used to explain and organize social relations. Its history is of brutality, pillage and genocide explained by its perpetrators as laying the ground for some imagined future civility. More
(2019-07-04). Pay packet inequality growing worldwide, says new UN report. un.org Top earners around the world have seen their share of national income rise in the last decade and a half, while everyone else has seen their pay packets shrink by comparison, UN economists reported on Thursday.
(2019-07-03). California gig workers eye a win if landmark bill passes state Senate. peoplesworld.org 
SAN FRANCISCO—If a law now wending its way through the state legislature passes its final hurdles this summer, hundreds of thousands of California workers now called "independent contractors" will be poised to gain essential benefits like Social Security, unemployment insurance, overtime pay, and workers' compensation, as well as vital rights like collective bargaining. Assembly Bill …
(2019-07-02). Sorry 'Washington Post'—Bernie Sanders Is Right About Economic Inequality. thenation.com Sorry 'Washington Post'—Bernie Sanders Is Right About Economic Inequality…
(2019-06-18). Report: Louisiana schools fall short on collecting, publishing policing data. splcenter.org As the presence of law enforcement officers in schools continue to grow in Louisiana and nationally, school policing data is not being made readily available to Louisiana's citizens as required by federal law, according to a report that the Southern Poverty Law Center released today.