2021
In 2020, top CEOs earned 351 times more than the typical worker
Nearly half of American workers don’t earn enough to afford a one-bedroom rental
Americans Quitting Jobs At Highest Rate Since 2000
Working 55-hour week increases risk of death: UN
Corporate tax rates
US Suffers Sharpest Rise In Poverty Rate In More Than 50 Years
U.S. economy had its worst year since WWII, shrinking 3.5% in 2020
The Economy Does Much Better Under Democrats. Why?
Food stamp spending rose 50% last year
11 US cities are piloting Universal Basic Income programs, with more to come
US suffers highest rise in poverty rate in over 50 years
55 US Corporate Giants Paid $0 in Federal Taxes in 2020
U.S. economy had its worst year since WWII, shrinking 3.5% in 2020
Word: The American economy
Hunger in the US
Nearly two-thirds of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck during pandemic1% of Farms Control 70% of Global Farmland: Study
Facts About Small Businesses in America
Robert Reich
—13 million Americans are unemployed
—12 million have lost their health care
—30 million are at risk of eviction
—8 million have fallen into poverty
—12 million total Covid-19 infections
1% of Farms Control 70% of Global Farmland: Study—12 million have lost their health care
—30 million are at risk of eviction
—8 million have fallen into poverty
—12 million total Covid-19 infections
Economists say no evidence that unemployment benefit disincentivises work
1% of Farms Control 70% of Global Farmland: Study
Affordable housing resources for renters
50 Richest Americans Worth as Much as Poorest 165 Million
2019
- Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II The 140 million poor & low-wealth people includes: 52.2% or 39 million children (below 18), 41.9% or 21 million elders (above 65), 42.6% or 65.8 million men, 45% or 74.2 million women. 60.4% or 26 million Black people, 64.1% or 38 million Latinx people, 40.8% or 8 million Asian people, 58.9% or 2.14 million Native/Indigenous people, 33.5% or 66 million white people. Poverty & low-wealth is a crisis in America.
- 59% of Americans living pay check to pay check
- How Canada got its lowest poverty rate in history
- The Commerce Department announced that the country’s trade deficit last year was the biggest in US history. It’s $891 billion for merchandise, $621 billion when the service sector is added in, and $419 billion with China alone. Each is a record. The Post reports that the overall number tops the previous record of $838 billion in 2006.
2018
- America's declining economy
- What a good anti-poverty agenda looks like
- Aid to needy families increases, but still below 60% of poverty line
- A third of renters insecure about food
- Billionaires made more money in 2017 than ever
- The case for economic degrowth
- Finland's experiment in universal basic income
- An audit of poverty in the US
- Work requirements for food stamps costly and ineffective
- Food stamps lead to a better life
- People support "public assistance" but dislike "welfare"
- The revival of the Poor People's Campaign
- The anti-cash movement
2017
- Capitalism
- Rewriting history to justify greed
- The road to fascism gets shorter
- The effects of extreme capitalism
- Confessions of a vision impaired stakeholder with dubious management practices embarking on an ill-defined mission
- Cooperatives
- How to start a business cooperative
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- Corporations
- Labor
- Money
- How's your GDP today?
- Printing money
- Alternative currency
- What banks, academics, the media and politicians don't tell you about money
- Reforming the money system
- MEDIA & GROUPS
- Gar Alperovitz
- Dean Baker
- Center for New Economics
- Ctr for Economic & Policy Reseach
- Dirt Diggers Digest
- Economic Policy Institute
- Economy in Crisis
- Fed Up
- Greg Kaufmann
- Kick It Over
- Naked Capitalism
- Off the Charts
- Real World Economics Review
- Red Neck Revolt
- Rethinking Economics
- Robert Reich
- Steady State Economy
- Talk Poverty
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