The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Vegan Company Turns Down Google’s $300 Million Buy-Out Offer
The company Google recently bid to buy out 'Impossible Foods,' the creator of the "Impossible Cheeseburger" which looks, cooks, and tastes like 'real' meat.
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The Outrageous Ascent of CEO Pay
For the 35 years, almost all incentives operating on American corporations have resulted in lower pay for average workers and higher pay for CEOs and other top executives – it's about time that started to change.
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Animal Rights Victory As Idaho “Ag-Gag” Law Ruled Unconstitutional In Federal Court
It's the first time an ag-gag statute has been declared unconstitutional.
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Why Conservatives are Still Trying, And Failing, To Prove Income Inequality Is A Myth
The middle class is doing just fine, they say...
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Great Embarrassments of an Unequal Society
America has experienced "gush-up" rather than "trickle-down" – now the shame is on the adherents of unregulated free-market capitalism who have assaulted us with winner-take-all wealth over the common good.
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Big Food Spent $50 Million This Year To Defeat GMO Labeling
A new report shows how much food and biotech companies increased their lobbying expenditures in 2015 – mainly to support the Deny Americans the Right to Know Act, which the House passed last month.
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The Revolt Against the Ruling Class
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are agents of a revolt, from the left and the right, fueled by anger at those who have had power over our economic and political system since the start of the 1980s.
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How the Super PAC Megadonor Oligarchy Conquered American Politics
The majority of money raised for the 2016 presidential race has come from those giving $100,000 or more.
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Hedge Funds Helped Wreck Puerto Rico’s Economy – Now the Poor Are Paying the Price
According to financiers, the only way out of the island's economic mess is to eliminate the minimum wage, sell off public assets, lay off teachers, shutter schools, cut workers’ vacation and benefits, and raise sales taxes.
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Two Big Reasons Hillary Clinton Isn’t Taking Elizabeth Warren’s Revolving-Door Dare
Cozy with Wall Street, Hillary hasn't endorsed the Financial Services Conflict of Interest Act prohibiting government officials from accepting “golden parachutes” from their former employers for entering public service.
