WSWS (2022-09-24). Hurricane Fiona exposes social inequality in Puerto Rico. wsws.org Governor Pedro Pierluisi and an executive from the privatized electricity company have walked back their promises that power would be restored within days.

WSWS (2022-09-23). Vowing "pain," Federal Reserve pledges to slash workers' wages. wsws.org Behind the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's rhetoric about "fighting inflation" is a brutal class policy of using mass unemployment to drive down wages.

_____ (2022-09-23). Poverty Is A Public Policy Choice. popularresistance.org It should not have taken a pandemic to realize poverty is a public policy choice. | Public investments in safety net programs continue to be extremely effective poverty reduction tools, as newly released Census income data show. Government social programs kept tens of millions of people out of poverty in 2021. Because of expansions to programs like unemployment insurance benefits and the child tax credit, poverty rates were actually lower in 2021 than they were prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. | The poverty reduction achieved through expanded social insurance programs highlights how much policymakers' choices can…

SAM (2022-09-23). A Voice at the United Nations the World Needs to Hear. inequality.org

Elise Gould (2022-09-23). After Expanded Child Tax Credit Slashed Poverty, Letting It Lapse Was Enormous Mistake. commondreams.org All in all, child poverty was the lowest on record in 2021, largely due to key expansions of the Child Tax Credit. Unfortunately, that's where the good news ends.

Mark Gruenberg (2022-09-23). Poor People's Campaign's 400,000-strong network to mobilize five million voters. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Seeking to build on success in 2020, the Poor People's Campaign is undertaking a massive campaign across multiple states not just to register new poor and low-income/low-wealth people to vote, but to ensure those who already are registered actually do vote this year. And, given some of the states with the highest concentrations of such …

Mark Gruenberg (2022-09-23). Poor People's Campaign's 400,000-strong network to mobilize 5 million voters. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Seeking to build on success in 2020, the Poor People's Campaign is undertaking a massive campaign across multiple states not just to register new poor and low-income/low-wealth people to vote, but to ensure those who already are registered actually do vote this year. And, given some of the states with the highest concentrations of such …

Sonali Kolhatkar (2022-09-23). Working-class tribune Barbara Ehrenreich exposed inequality and capitalism's positive thinking cult. peoplesworld.org The late Barbara Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 bestseller Nickel and Dimed, which showed that hard-working people simply weren't making it in America. But Ehrenreich, who passed away this September at 81, made an equally great contribution to economic justice with her subsequent book, Bright-Sided. It argued that the cult of "positive thinking" was putting …

A Guest Author (2022-09-23). Boston Marches for Indigenous Peoples Day. workers.org By K. James Protesters will march through the streets of Boston on Oct. 8 to demand that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day (IPD) instead of Columbus Day. For decades, Indigenous peoples in the United States have been demanding an end to the public celebration of Christopher Columbus, . . . |

Olivier De Schutter (2022-09-23). A Welfare System Built to Exclude Will Never Reduce Poverty in the US. commondreams.org To fix its broken welfare system, the U.S. must move away from its fixation on fraud, exclusions by design, and the stigmatization of people in poverty.

Editor (2022-09-22). Caitlin Johnstone: America's Perverse Poverty Draft. scheerpost.com

Shailly Gupta Barnes (2022-09-22). Census Data Proves Anti-Poverty Measures Work. otherwords.org The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported that poverty dropped notably in 2021. Amid a pandemic and widespread economic pain, this is a significant accomplishment. There are three lessons here — about government programs, about how we measure poverty, and about how far we have left to go. First, these numbers show that government programs work. …

Staff (2022-09-22). New York: Prosecutor sues Trump and three of his children for more than 200 cases of fraud. en.cubadebate.cu The 214-page lawsuit is the culmination of a three-year investigation showing that Donald Trump and his children Ivanka, Eric and Donald Trump Jr., as well as Trump Organization executives Allen Weisselberg and Jeffrey McConney, allegedly used the image of wealth and opulence of the former president to make him look like a great businessman who earned millions of dollars when he was a television presenter, as well as during his presidency. James announced the details of the lawsuit at a news conference, where she said the case was civil, not criminal.