why-does-childhood-poverty-exist?

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few. Democrats must remember this — and act on it.Continue Reading

the-rigged-game-behind-low-wages

How is it that the 100 lowest-paying US corporations “can’t afford” to pay their typical workers more than $35,000 but have no problem spending hundreds of billions on stock buybacks and paying their CEOs an average of $17 million? #economy #economics #inequality #billionaireContinue Reading

the-true-cost-of-the-traitor’s-gilded-ballroom

The cost of The Traitor’s White House ballroom — initially pegged at $200m, then $300m — will now be $400m according to the president. Why have so many corporations lined up to donate to the ballroom project? Because in The Traitor’s White House, everything is for sale — even theContinue Reading