inequality
UN 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.
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MLK’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.
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Trump 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.
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Just 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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Trump’s tax cuts will widen the racial wage gap
February 7, 2018Trump is not to blame for this disparity, just as he is not be given credit for currently low unemployment rates. The question is what will the administration do going forward?
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