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MORNING MESSAGE Jessicah Pierre A Revolutionary Idea To Close The Racial Wealth Divide The gap between America’s ultra-wealthy and the rest of us is growing dramatically as wealth continues to concentrate at the top at the expense of the rest of us. One major symptom...

A Revolutionary Idea To Close The Racial Wealth Divide

A Revolutionary Idea To Close The Racial Wealth Divide

The gap between America’s ultra-wealthy and the rest of us is growing dramatically as wealth continues to concentrate at the top at the expense of the rest of us. One major symptom of this economic rift is the racial wealth divide, which is greater today than it was...

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MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati A Plea from America’s Rich: Let’s Change the Subject! America’s elites have for decades now enjoyed — and exploited — a mainstream political consensus. America is doing just fine, this consensus has held, but just not for everybody. We...

A Plea from America’s Rich: Let's Change the Subject!

A Plea from America’s Rich: Let's Change the Subject!

The United States these days is essentially working well only for the rich, and appreciable numbers of Americans no longer just wonder why. They’re demanding checks on grand private fortunes and the behaviors that pump these fortunes up. All this has today’s rich worrying. Really worrying. Headlines the Washington Post: “U.S. billionaires worry about the survival of the system that made them rich.” That survival, the more thoughtfully strategic among the rich now believe, requires a reworked mainstream consensus that recognizes how deeply entrenched American inequality has become. Can they pull that reworking off?

#PeoplesWave Rises Up For #MedicareForAll

#PeoplesWave Rises Up For #MedicareForAll

We just took a huge step towards Medicare For All: the House Ways and Means Committee has announced they will hold, for the first time, hearings on the Medicare For All Act Of 2019, introduced this spring by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT). Ways...

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MORNING MESSAGE Leo Gerard Victims of Workplace Safety Abandoned by OSHA Last year, on Halloween just before midnight, Frank Leasure - Army veteran, husband, father and grandfather -left work at American Standard in Salem, Ohio. To get to his car in the employee lot,...

Victims of Workplace Safety Abandoned by OSHA

Victims of Workplace Safety Abandoned by OSHA

Last year, on Halloween just before midnight, Frank Leasure left work at American Standard in Salem, Ohio. To get to his car in the employee lot, he had to walk across two sets of Norfolk Southern railroad tracks. He waited in frigid, driving rain for a westbound...

Mitch McConnell Is Democracy's Grim Reaper

Mitch McConnell Is Democracy's Grim Reaper

Donald Trump has proven himself unfit for the presidency at nearly every twist and turn. The lengths he will go to circumvent the constitution, violate the rule of law, and sink to unthinkable depths of immorality are shamelessly on display. These efforts are only...

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MORNING MESSAGE Tim Wilkins The #PeoplesWave Is Coming To D.C. It’s time. It’s your time. It’s OUR time. It’s time for the #PeoplesWave. Are you with us? This weekend, over a thousand People’s Action members from all across the country will gather in Washington, D.C....

The #PeoplesWave Is Coming To D.C.

The #PeoplesWave Is Coming To D.C.

  It’s time. It’s your time. It’s OUR time. It’s time for the #PeoplesWave. Are you with us? This weekend, nearly a thousand People’s Action members from all across the country will gather in Washington, D.C. to compare notes, celebrate our victories, and prepare...

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