(2021-08-26). Our 'Trillion-Dollar Seven': Can We Summon the Courage to Tax Them? inequality.org
(2021-08-26). Safety net policies are helping reduce the number of Americans below the poverty line — but that's not the whole story. Elena Delavega, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Memphis 
(2021-08-26). As contract battle heats up, Dana workers describe working through the COVID pandemic. wsws.org Dana workers are battling poverty wages, sweatshop conditions and the sacrifice of their health and lives for corporate profit during the pandemic.
(2021-08-26). Racial income and wealth gaps are huge — but the Fed doesn't have the right tools to fix them. Paul Wachtel, Emeritus Professor of Economics, New York University 
(2021-08-26). Saturday 9/25: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: The Origins of Wealth. indybay.org
(2021-08-26). Wealthy Countries Weigh Boosters; Fewer Than 2% Of Africans Vaccinated. popularresistance.org The highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus is sweeping Africa in a deadly third wave of the pandemic. Over the last month, there has been an 80-percent increase in cases across the continent, with South Africa alone reporting more than 14,000 new cases in a single day. Despite the fact that fewer than 2 percent of Africans have been fully vaccinated, wealthy countries such as the United States are making plans for booster shots for their populations, continuing to hoard doses in a stunning show of vaccine imperialism and capitalist irrationality. | The current wave is Africa's deadliest so far, and is…
(2021-08-25). Who Is Buying My Neighborhood? ips-dc.org Invisible forces are disrupting housing markets in most metropolitan areas, fueling the most acute housing crisis in a generation. As pandemic protections are lifted, many communities are anticipating waves of evictions and foreclosures. By one estimate, the U.S. has a shortage of more than 5.5 million units of housing. | Among these invisible forces is an explosion in short-term rentals, a shift to corporate ownership of rental housing, and a plague of global billionaires looking to park money in U.S. real estate markets. Put this on top of inequality-fueled gentrification and many cities have a full-blown affor…
(2021-08-25). Community Fridge Program Gets Frozen Out of Las Vegas. progressive.org Nevada has some of the highest rates of food insecurity in the country, but zoning laws and stigma around poverty and homelessness have halted any efforts to alleviate this issue.
(2021-08-25). CODEPINK Urges PBS To Stop Censoring The Truth About China. popularresistance.org CODEPINK's letter, with nearly 4,000 signatures, calls on PBS to stop censoring Peter Getzels' and Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn's documentary film Voices from the Frontlines: China's War on Poverty. The letter addresses how PBS is depriving its viewers of opportunities for learning about collective harmony and equality by censoring this documentary and its insight into China's life-saving policies, which took 100 million citizens out of poverty, at a time when poverty, food insecurity, and houselessness are all at record levels in the United States.
(2021-08-25). The Fix Is In on Fixing Things. otherwords.org America's economic and political inequality has led workaday Americans to exclaim: "The system is broken. Let's fix it!" | But there's another version of this protest that I'm hearing more frequently these days: "The system is fixed. Let's break it!" That certainly applies to such rigged systems as money in politics and voter suppression, but it's also relevant to seemingly mundane matters that restrain our personal freedoms. | One of the insidious "fixes" we need to break is the claim by brand-name corporations that we consumers must be banned by law from repairing the products they sell to us. | The weak batter…
(2021-08-25). Socialism before shareholders: China reins in big tech's unchecked power. peoplesworld.org 
Shareholders beware, socialism is back. That's the warning being sounded by stock market analysts and financial advisors to anyone parking their money in Chinese tech stocks. Behind the investor panic is a stepped-up regulatory campaign by the Communist Party of China that aims to combat inequality, lower living costs for working families, impose order on …
(2021-08-25). Biden Boosted Food Stamps. Let's Do the Same to All US Anti-Poverty Programs. truthout.org 
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(2021-08-25). "Dana-UAW-USW's sweat shop contract is a non-starter. Vote no! Dana workers need a strategy for victory!" wsws.org After years of poverty wages, unbearably long work hours and sweatshop conditions at our plants, Dana workers are saying enough is enough and are ready to fight. The UAW and the USW trying to ram another sellout contract down our throats without giving us time to study and discuss it. This time, however, we are not going to allow them to do it.
(2021-08-25). Senate Democrats fighting to tax billionaires and pass bill to invest in working families. nationofchange.org "The unconscionable growth in billionaire wealth through the misery of the pandemic is the clearest case I can imagine for the progressive tax reform working its way through Congress."