inequality
Consumers League blasts Trump decision to let payday lenders run amok
February 14, 2019“Whether a consumer is applying for a mortgage or borrowing to pay the electric bill, no one should be given a loan that they cannot possibly pay back.”
Read moreUN human rights panel to discuss U.S. income inequality
June 18, 2018UN inspections of Puerto Rico after the hurricanes helped prompt its High Commission to investigate income inequality as a human rights violation in the U.S.
Read moreMLK’s children: U.S. needs values revolution, not a sanitized idol
April 6, 2018"Quite frankly, I would say there were a number of reasons my father was killed. He was talking about a radical redistribution of wealth,” Martin Luther King III said.
Read moreTrump individual income tax cut: $89 a day for the 1 percent; 11 cents a day for the poor
April 2, 2018The bottom 20 percent of taxpayers will get an average tax cut next year of $40 when they file their tax returns next year, covering 2018. They’re the folks making $20,000 or less.
Read moreJust how unequal are America’s major corporations?
March 12, 2018Pay scales at major U.S. businesses are way out of whack—and that's just at the ones we know about.
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