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  • Inequality
    Is the 1 Percent Really the Problem?
    April 20, 2016
    | Lynn Stuart Parramore
    Unpack the numbers on America's highest earners and there's a stark division between the well-off and the dangerously affluent.
  • Now We Build a Fair Trade Movement
    June 29, 2015
    | Dave Johnson
    Our movement for democracy, shared prosperity, transparency, honesty, dignity, respect and humanity can only grow.
  • Why So Many Americans Feel So Powerless
    May 1, 2015
    | Robert Reich
    A growing sense of powerlessness in all aspects of our lives — as workers, consumers and voters — is convincing most people the system only works for those at the top.
  • The Rise of the Working Poor and the Non-Working Rich
    April 1, 2015
    | Robert Reich
    The rise of these two groups is challenging the core American assumptions that people are paid what they’re worth, and work is justly rewarded.
  • What Makes Nonviolent Movements Explode?
    December 29, 2014
    | Mark Engler and Paul Engler
    Some protests are ignored and forgotten while others dominate the news cycle for weeks, becoming touchstones in political life.
  • Activism
    Howard Zinn and the Joy of a Political Life
    December 22, 2014
    | Frances Fox Piven
    The essays in Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident remind us that Zinn was not just a historian: he was also deeply involved in the major 20th century struggles for social justice in the United States.
  • Inequality
    The Mega-Rich Are About to Control More Wealth Than the Bottom 90 Percent
    November 13, 2014
    | Inae Oh
    The immense wealth growth of the top 10th of the top 1 percent is to blame for the rise of income inequality in America.
  • Restoring an America That Has Lost Its Way
    October 9, 2014 | Moyers & Company
    Reporter Bob Herbert on his new book, Losing Our Way, an intimate and heartrending portrait of America in economic despair.
  • Inequality
    Chart: The Rich Are Getting Richer, The Poor Are....
    September 8, 2014
    | Kevin Drum
    A new survey shows that over the past 25 years the rich have seen their wealth skyrocket while the middle class and poor have seen their share of national wealth plummet.
  • A Rising Tide Lifts All Yachts
    June 4, 2014
    | Peter Van Buren
    "Why don’t the unemployed get off their couches?" and eight other critical questions for Americans.


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