If the richest 1% of American households paid at the same rates they done so in the 40 s and 50 s, the alter could be transformative “Every billionaire is a policy failure.” So says a key adviser to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Ocasio-Cortez herself says that it’s incorrect to have …
Read More »‘The poor are punished’: Dorian lays bare inequality in the Bahamas
The tourist destination relies on a life support system of fishermen, inn workers and laborers. They’ve been hardest hit Holidaymakers queuing at immigration at the Bahamas’ Nassau airport are still serenaded by three pink-shirted humankinds playing jovial music. They are still sunbathing on the beaches and still swimming in the …
Read More »‘The United States is broken as hell’ – the division in politics over race and class
In the final part of our serial on the American left we look at how marginalized groups in America are now asserting themselves “However rebellious offsprings may be, they have their parents’ genes; American revolutionaries are Americans, ” wrote the late radical writer Andrew Kopkind in the New York Times …
Read More »Inequality: is it rising, and can we reverse it?
The UK ranks among the most unequal commonwealths in Europe and many people feel they are not sharing in the country’s wealth Income inequality has risen aggressively since the 1970 s in most advanced economies various regions of the world, and has been blamed for increasingly polarised politics. Thomas Piketty: …
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