From CommonDreamsWASHINGTON - Essential workers went underpaid, unsupported and forced to risk their health at corporations owned or operated by billionaires, even as the total wealth of America’s billionaires rose by more than $1 trillion under the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), United for Respect, and … [Read more...] about Report: "Billionaire Wealth vs. Community Health" Finds Essential Workers Continue to Suffer as US Billionaires Gain Almost $1 Trillion Under Pandemic
Social Justice/社会正義
'Who Wants to Break the News to Him?' Trump Silent After GOP Effort to Block Election Certification in Michigan Thwarted
From CommonDreamsPublished on Wednesday, November 18, 2020byCommon Dreams'Who Wants to Break the News to Him?' Trump Silent After GOP Effort to Block Election Certification in Michigan Thwarted "It's plain and simple, folks," said Rep. Rashida Tlaib: "The Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers put politics above their duty to … [Read more...] about 'Who Wants to Break the News to Him?' Trump Silent After GOP Effort to Block Election Certification in Michigan Thwarted
Joe Biden Is Freezing Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Out of His Cabinet
From JacobinIn the famous scene from Casablanca, the corrupt local prefect of police, Captain Louis Renault, suddenly demands that the Café Américain, owned and operated by Humphrey Bogart’s Rick Blaine, be closed. “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is … [Read more...] about Joe Biden Is Freezing Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Out of His Cabinet
Joe Biden Should Absolutely Erase Student Debt via Executive Order
From JacobinAs a senator, Joe Biden helped lenders make it almost impossible to discharge student debt in bankruptcy … [Read more...] about Joe Biden Should Absolutely Erase Student Debt via Executive Order
Trump Is Attempting a Brazen, Anti-Democratic Power Grab. And It Has Nothing to Do With the Election
From JacobinNativist Reapportionment Theory Redux By the late 1970s, only a decade after the legislative reapportionment revolution, nativist organizations began developing a renewed theory of apportionment. Organizations like the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and its legal … [Read more...] about Trump Is Attempting a Brazen, Anti-Democratic Power Grab. And It Has Nothing to Do With the Election