(2019-11-15). Shocking gender inequality in general election media coverage as women 'marginalised'. thecanary.co 
Women are featuring in just a fifth of national press coverage of the General Election campaign, according to research.Academics at Loughborough University noted "gender inequality across all coverage" from November 7 to November 13.The research found that when considering all participants in election news coverage — including citizens, business people, experts and public professionals — women's voices accounted for just a third of all quotation in TV news and a fifth of quotation in the national press.On television, women's voices made up 32.9% of the share, while men had 67.1%.SNP leader Nicola Sturge…
(2019-11-15). Why Aren't Americans Rising up Like the People of Chile and Lebanon? counterpunch.org The waves of protests breaking out in country after country around the world beg the question: Why aren't Americans rising up like our neighbors? We live at the very heart of this neoliberal system that is force-feeding the systemic injustice and inequality of 19th-century laissez-faire capitalism to the people of the 21st century. So we More
(2019-11-15). Wall Street and the Frankenstein Economy. counterpunch.org 
The term 'income inequality' suggests the inevitability of a natural process, a division of winners from losers along the lines of hair loss or disproportionate body mass that corporate researchers are working to solve for the sake of the self-esteem of the losers. Some people are tall, others short, some people have pleasant dispositions, others not so much. Otherwise, it almost certainly isn't the 'winners' for whom inequality is a problem, is it? More
(2019-11-14). Robert Reich: Billionaires Don't Actually Like Capitalism. truthdig.com 
Billionaires are wailing that Elizabeth Warren's and Bernie Sanders's wealth tax proposals are attacks on free market capitalism. | Warren "vilifies successful people," says Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase. | Rubbish. There are basically only five ways to accumulate a billion dollars, and none of them has to do with being successful in free market capitalism. | Related Articles: …
(2019-11-14). Who Really Benefits From a Trump Tax Break for the Poor? truthdig.com 
The president overhauled the tax code in 2017, and a pair of wealthy Republican donors in West Palm Beach have been reaping the rewards.
(2019-11-14). White Nationalists Are Running the White House. therealnews.com 
The Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch report on the leaked emails of Trump senior policy adviser Stephen Miller shows the deep connections he has to racist white nationalists.
(2019-11-14). Sanders, Lee, and Tlaib Lead Effort to Tax Huge CEO-Worker Pay Gaps. commondreams.org A recent IPS report finds that 80 percent of S&P 500 firms last year paid their CEO over 100 times their median employee pay. At 50 publicly held firms, workers would have to toil at least 1,000 years to make as much as their boss made in just one. (Photo collage: Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/pay_gap_inequality.jpg …
(2019-11-14). Chile: Protests Continue For the 28th Day in a Row. telesurenglish.net Demonstrators in Chile gathered in public squares on Thursday for another round of protests that started over a hike in public transport fares but have broadened to encompass grievances over low wages, the high cost of living and social inequality. | RELATED: | Chile's Piñera Announces Retired Police Can Be Rehired | In the capital Santiago, the protest started in the Italia Square – renamed "Dignity Square" – and the Avenue Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins…
(2019-11-14). Europe Has Developed Thanks to Africa's Wealth. globalresearch.ca "You must know a great fighter, he is a personality in his country" — the French worker of North African origin who introduced him to me told me. It was rigorously true. For many years Mamadou Mansaré has embodied the …
(2019-11-14). Bernie introduces tax excessive CEO pay act. nationofchange.org "Corporate greed is a disease that has long inflicted this country — income inequality and the pay gap between CEOs and their employees are just two of its symptoms that are harming everyday people."
(2019-11-14). Warren Suggests Corporate Media Ask Working People, Not Just the Very Rich, About Her Wealth Tax. commondreams.org Sen. Elizabeth Warren called out the news media on Wednesday evening for focusing coverage of her proposed Ultra-Millionaires Tax largely on wealthy CEOs' and investors' negative views of the plan—rather than those of the working families she says would benefit from its redistribution of wealth. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-11821927312.jpg …
(2019-11-13). Bloomberg Could Buy the White House to Kill a Wealth Tax. therealnews.com 
Inequality.org's Sam Pizzigati says a $6 billion presidential campaign by Michael Bloomberg would pay for itself in two years if it would stop a wealth tax.
(2019-11-13). Elite Institutions Hoard Wealth While Cities Die Around Them. therealnews.com 
A movement to tax non-profits in a city mired in poverty has hit an obstacle: The richest institutions claim they already pay enough.
(2019-11-13). FAO: Hunger Rises in Latin America, Affects 42.5 Million People. telesurenglish.net Hunger in Latin America increased in 2018 and affected 42.5 million people, 6.5 percent of the region's population, where food insecurity also spread and where obesity continues to be a critical problem, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned this Tuesday. | RELATED: | Rural Colombia and Central America Facing Hunger and Poverty | The 42.5 million Latin Americans who suffered from hunger in 2018 signified an increase of 4.5 million over the 38 milli…
(2019-11-13). Under Pressure From Left, New Jersey Democrats Back Off Vote to Gut Minimum Wage Law. theintercept.com After passing a $15 minimum wage, Democrats are pushing a bill that would suspend scheduled wage increases based on changes in unemployment or retail sales.
(2019-11-12). SPLC Response to Union Petition. splcenter.org On November 7, 2019, the Southern Poverty Law Center received a notice from the National Labor Relations Board that the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild seeks to represent certain employees through the formation of a union.
(2019-11-06). Multi-Millionaire Nancy Pelosi warns "Fellow Leftists": Medicare for All is a Very Bad Idea. mintpressnews.com Pelosi's objections to progressive legislation like a wealth tax or Medicare for All are based not on pragmatic concerns about losing votes (quite the opposite appears to be true) but have more to do with her position as one of America's richest people.
(2019-10-16). The Urban Institute Report Did Not Score Medicare for All. peoplespolicyproject.org The Urban Institute and The Commonwealth Fund put out a report today that provided cost estimates for 8 different health care reforms. One of those eight reforms, which is called "Single Payer Enhanced," describes a comprehensive, no-cost-sharing, national health plan similar to Medicare for All (M4A). However, the Urban plan uses hospital reimbursement rates that are 15 percent higher than the rates in the M4A legislation, meaning that its cost estimates are much…
(2019-09-27). Shailly Gupta Barnes, Frances Fox Piven on Defining and Ending Poverty. fair.org 
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