Social Inequality and Universal Basic Income
Marcel Fratzscher and Philip Kovce | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
The welfare state in Germany is not as efficient as in the Nordic countries. In Gerrmany, more than twice as many people are at risk of income poverty-especially children and single parents (mostly mothers). We have to make a decision: entrepreneurial paradise or a little less faith in the market and high life satisfaction for the broad masses.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/10/18830592.php

We're California Graduate Students, and We're Not Taking Poverty Wages Anymore
UC Santa Cruz Wildcat Strikers | thenation.com | 2020-02-10
We're California Graduate Students, and We're Not Taking Poverty Wages…
thenation.com/article/activism/santa-cruz-strike/

Starting a Business is Hard, Discrimination Makes It Harder
Monica Grover | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-10
My parents came to the United States from India in 1971 to chase their "American Dream." They bought a small community grocery, liquor store, and deli called Renno's Quality Food Market in Shady Side, Maryland. My parents became entrepreneurs out of necessity. They hoped it would create a path towards wealth and security. Forty-six years…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/10/starting-a-business-is-hard-discrimination-makes-it-harder/

Charter Schools Fail to Eradicate the Achievement Gap
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-09
Numerous inequalities characterize societies in which the majority produce the wealth but only a handful own it. The so-called "achievement gap" is mainly an expression of the harsh social class divide in society that keeps growing. One of the conceited claims of charter school advocates is that privately-owned-operated non-profit and for-profit charter schools will close …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/02/charter-schools-fail-to-eradicate-the-achievement-gap/

Hillary Clinton launches new attack on Sanders
wsws.org | 2020-02-08
The Democratic leadership is determined to suppress the issue of social inequality in the 2020 campaign for fear of encouraging the growth of social opposition and anti-capitalist sentiment.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/08/deba-f08.html

Living in Inequality, Dying in Despair
Sam Pizzigati | commondreams.org | 2020-02-08
A memorial wall remembering local victims of drug use and drug-related violence in Portsmouth, Ohio, 2012. (Photo: Joel Prince/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2019-02-03_at_12.29.42_pm_0_0.png …
commondreams.org/views/2020/02/08/living-inequality-dying-despair?cd-origin=rss

Anti-Trump-themed 'Immigrant Food' restaurant owned by lobbyists for right-wing Latin American coup leaders who fueled migration crisis
Alexander Rubinstein | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-30
The shocking story of how wealthy Latin American regime-change hitmen exploited immigrant rights, international food, and a pliant DC media…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/30/anti-trump-immigrant-food-lobbyists-coup-fueled-migration-crisis/

Anti-Trump-themed 'Immigrant Food' restaurant owned by lobbyists for right-wing Latin American coup leaders who fueled migration crisis
Alexander Rubinstein | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-30
The shocking story of how wealthy Latin American regime-change hitmen exploited immigrant rights, international food, and a pliant DC media…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/30/anti-trump-immigrant-food-lobbyists-coup-fueled-migration-crisis/