(2021-08-06). 'Time For Medicare For All'. popularresistance.org The United States spends far more of its GDP on healthcare than other rich countries yet still has the highest infant and maternal mortality rates, the lowest life expectancy at age 60, and the most glaring inequities, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Commonwealth Fund.
(2021-08-06). The Eviction Crisis is a Race and Gender Wage Gap Issue. inequality.org
(2021-08-06). Economy Adds 943,000 Jobs in July; Unemployment Falls to 5.4 Percent. cepr.net The number of unincorporated small businesses is almost 800,000 above the 2019 average. The July employment report again showed very strong gains in both the establishment and household survey. In addition to showing 943,000 new jobs in July, the numbers for April and May were also revised up substantially so that the average over the …
(2021-08-06). Job Recovery Is Happening Far More Quickly Than It Did After Great Recession. truthout.org 
The July employment report again showed very strong gains in both the establishment and household survey. In addition to showing 943,000 new jobs in July, the numbers for April and May were also revised up substantially so that the average over the last three months is now 832,000. At that pace, we would make up the jobs lost in the recession in seven months. | Unemployment Record Far Ahead of Recovery From Great Recession: | The 0.5 percentage point drop in the household survey was a…
(2021-08-06). "China's Successful Battle against Poverty is a Part of its Process of Socialist Construction" libya360.wordpress.com Abdul Rahman Women who migrated to the Wangjia community participate in local activities at the community centre in Tongren City, Guizhou Province, April 2021. Photo : Tricontinental: Institute of Social Research A recent study published by the Tricontinental: Institute of Social Research provides a detailed understanding of methods and motivations behind the Chinese initiative, which…
(2021-08-06). China eradicates absolute poverty while billionaires go for a joyride to space: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2021). mronline.org 
During this bleak period, in late February 2021, China's president Xi Jinping announced that—counter to this general global downturn—China had eradicated extreme poverty. What does this announcement mean?>
(2021-08-06). A China-U.S. Face-Off Worth Cheering, Not Fearing. inequality.org
(2021-08-06). Open Balkans Initiative: Continuity of Western Neocolonialism? towardfreedom.org The Balkans appear to remain stuck in the waiting room to join the EU, while foreign powers fight for influence and redistribution of Balkan nations' wealth.
(2021-08-06). Richard Trumka 1949—2021. indybay.org Trumka, who was installed as AFL-CIO president in 2009, helped enforce a vast transfer of wealth from the working class to the coffers of big business through the virtual elimination of strikes and other forms of class struggle.
(2021-08-06). Release Details of Saudi Involvement or Stay Away From Memorials, 9/11 Families Tell Biden. commondreams.org "Benefits expiring on Labor Day is a cruel joke that only wealthy politicians could come up with."
(2021-08-05). China Eradicates Absolute Poverty While Billionaires Go for a Joyride to Space. dissidentvoice.org 
Women who migrated to the Wangjia community participate in local activities at the community centre in Tongren City, Guizhou Province, April 2021. Confounding news comes from the flagship World Economic Outlook report of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The report highlights many of the pressing issues facing our planet: disruptions in the global supply chain, …
(2021-08-05). COVID Relief Packages Dramatically Reduced Poverty. They Should Be Permanent. truthout.org 
Last week,
(2021-08-05). "This Is What America Looks Like": Ilhan Omar on Her Refugee Journey from Mogadishu to Minneapolis. democracynow.org 
We speak with Minnesota Congressmember Ilhan Omar about her memoir "This Is What America Looks Like," the Biden administration's recent airstrikes in her birth country of Somalia and why the U.S. must remain a country of refuge for people fleeing war and poverty like she did. Omar adds that the Biden administration must stop enforcing Trump-era immigration rules that allow for expedited deportations of asylum seekers. "These policy choices have consequences. We have a moral imperative in this country to get our immigration policy right and make it a more humane system," she says.
(2021-08-05). Egypt's el-Sisi steps up repression as opposition mounts to mass poverty and inequality. wsws.org Egypt's military dictator Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is using the courts, new laws and censorship of the internet and social media to suppress all opposition to his brutal regime.
(2021-08-05). The New Committee on Inequality: a Fresh Look at Economic Disparity. counterpunch.org Members of Congress serving on a new "select" committee on inequality had no trouble social distancing at their inaugural hearing. That's because the six seats reserved for Republicans were all empty. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had dutifully invited the GOP to participate, but after she vetoed two of their nominees for a different body —
(2021-08-05). IPS Mourns the Death of AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka. inequality.org
(2021-08-05). Australian Labor Party backs tax bonanza for the wealthy. wsws.org Last week's abandonment of Labor's previous taxation promises shatters what was left of the "Fair Go Action Plan" that it proclaimed before the 2019 election.