«Тревожная веха»: 12 крупнейших плутократов Америки теперь владеют 1 триллионом долларов состояния

Новые данные Института политических исследований показывают, что, несмотря на пандемию, которая несколько месяцев сдерживала рост экономики, класс американских миллиардеров становится богаче, чем когда-либо, добавив почти 700 миллиардов долларов в свое состояние после общенациональной блокировки в марте.

Alan Macleod
От Alan Macleod

For the first time in history, the 12 richest individuals in the United States collectively hold over $1 trillion in wealth. New figures from the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) show that, despite a pandemic that has stunted the economy for months, America’s billionaire class is becoming richer

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Что произойдет, если французские желтые жилетки победят?

Если требования протестующих будут выполнены, найдется кто-то еще, кто будет вынужден оплатить счет. Скорее всего, будут облагаться налогами десятки миллионов или сотни миллионов. И они не будут жить во Франции, или в Европейском союзе, или даже где-нибудь рядом с ним.

Andre Vltchek
От Andre Vltchek
France | Yellow Vest | Protesters

What if protesters in Paris win, and the French government gives in to all their demands? What if taxes are reduced, wages increased, President Macron steps down? I am not talking only about the fuel tax; attempts to impose it have been already abandoned. I am not talking about an increase of the minimum wage – the government already agreed to

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Является ли Венесуэла на грани социального взрыва?

Марксистский аналитик Хорхе Мартин рассматривает причины, ответы и решение нынешнего экономического кризиса в Венесуэле.

Jorge Martin
От Jorge Martin
Demonstrators push police's shields as they protest Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro near the attorney generals office in Caracas, Venezuela, July 18, 2018. The previous night, former presidential candidate and opposition leader Henrique Capriles called on the country's political forces to reorganize in order to cope with the South American country's hyperinflation, and lack of food and medicine. Fernando Llano | AP

The aggravation of the economic crisis is making life unbearable for working people in Venezuela. The destruction of the purchasing power of wages has been combined with the collapse of all basic infrastructure (water, electricity and public transport). Workers in different sectors have started to organize and protest, demanding higher wages; while

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Поддержание капиталистического сахара-высокого: эпоха корпоративных выкупа

Снижение налогов Trump вызвало волну выкупа корпоративных акций, которая может иметь устойчивые рынки акций, но мало что сделала для повышения заработной платы или создания рабочих мест.

Jon Jeter
От Jon Jeter
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence meet with Harley Davidson executives and Union Representatives on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Feb. 2, 2017. AP | Pablo Martinez Monsivais

WASHINGTON -- Weeks after he was sworn in as president, Donald Trump met with Harley-Davidson executives and union representatives at the White House, to win support for his tax-plan proposal: I think you’re going to even expand — I know your business is now doing very well, and there’s a lot of spirit right now in the country that you weren’t

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The US Is One of the Only Countries That Doesn’t Recognize International Workers’ Day

It’s not a coincidence that while most Americans are struggling, just three individuals—Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett—together own as much wealth as half of the country combined.

Saurav Sarkar
От Saurav Sarkar
Protesters march on Wall Street in front of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, May 1, 2018. Workers and activists marked May Day with rallies around the world to demand their government address labor issues. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

Most of the world recognizes May 1—May Day—as International Workers’ Day. Here in one of the few countries that doesn’t, it’s worth pausing to ask how U.S. workers are doing. At an event last December, Fight for $15 organizer Terrence Wise recalled “going to bed at night, ignoring my own stomach’s rumbling, but having to hear my three little

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Congressional Budget Office Report Reveals The Rich Are Once Again Outpacing Everyone Else

The Congressional Budget Office has just released the latest iteration of its U.S. household income distribution series, and this new research rates as the nonpartisan agency’s most comprehensive yet.

Sam Pizzigati
От Sam Pizzigati
A homeless man sits outside a high-rise building converted into apartments, Dec. 4, 2017, in downtown Los Angeles. The U.S. Department on Housing and Urban Development release of the 2017 homeless numbers are expected to show a dramatic increase in the number of people lacking shelter along the West Coast. (AP/Jae C. Hong)

Back in the 1980s, the decade that saw researchers start detailing America’s increasing concentration of income and wealth, flacks for the emerging Reagan economic order disdainfully dismissed the significance of the alarming new data. The United States isn’t getting more unequal, the Reaganites pronounced, and the middle class isn’t shrinking.

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