Inequality!

Corporate Welfare – Corporate Crime

http://www.globalissues.org Corporate Welfare Corporations and corporate-funded think tanks, media and other institutions are often the ones that loudly cry at the shame of welfare and the sin of living off the government and how various social programs should be cut back due to their costs. What is less discussed though is the amount of welfare […]

Child Poverty Worst in London

The Independent   9 Jan 2012 A “child poverty map” exposes the UK’s most stricken areas today, as campaigners warn that cuts targeted at families will lead to an “economic and a social disaster”. The Campaign to End Child Poverty names Tower Hamlets in east London as the local authority worst affected, with more than half […]

Why Republican Economic Ideas Won’t Work

http://www.care2.com/causes/       by Sam Taxy       November 10, 2011 Everyone knows that there is an economic crisis right now — unemployment is high, consumption is down and families are hurting. President Obama has already unveiled a plan that would add more than a million jobs in a year, but Republicans keep on stalling it in Congress. Last […]

Occupy Wall St. group speaks up for America

jesse jackson jjackson@rainbowpush.org   October 4, 2011 People are turning. The misery is too widespread. The privileged are too brazen. The injustice too apparent. On Wall Street, young students have created a free democratic space in a place they call Liberty Square. They protest that Wall Street has been rescued, but there is no help for […]

Inequality costs the earth

http://www.newint.org/features/special/2010/06/01/ New Internationalist Magazine Issue 433 If we really want to avert climate change, argues Bob Hughes, we’d better tackle inequality first. Divided we fall: social inequality adversely affects the rich as well as the poor. Mark Henley / PANOS The modern global economy doesn’t just run on fossil fuels. It runs on inequality, which now […]