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New York Magazine
STUDY: INEQUALITY ROBS $2.5 TRILLION FROM U.S. WORKERS EACH YEAR. Every few months, some group of socially conscious number crunchers will remind Americans that a tiny elite is binge-eating the nation’s economic pie while the rest of us plebeians fight over table scraps. Journalists will then aggregate eye-popping statistics and edifying charts, progressives will share these over social media, adorned with red-faced (and/or guillotine) emoji — and the moral arc of history will carry on bending toward neofeudalism.
So, in the present moment of booming stock markets and child hunger, you might be feeling too inured to America’s grotesque levels of inequality to summon much interest in yet another report testifying to the one percent’s total victory in the 50 Years Class War.
But a new study from the Rand Corporation, in partnership with the Fair Work Center, illustrates the impact of a half-century of upward redistribution in bracingly concrete terms: If income had been distributed as evenly over the past five decades as it was in 1975, the median full-time worker in the U.S. would enjoy annual earnings of roughly $92,000 a year. As is, that worker makes just $50,000.
FOUR WAYS ‘JIM CROW 2.0’ IS SHAPING THIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. By John Blake, CNN November 1, 2020 On the first and third Monday of each month, Theresa Burroughs traveled to Alabama’s […]
A BLACK VOTING RIGHTS ACTIVIST CONFRONTYS THE GHOSTS OF RACIAL TERROR IN NORTH CAROLINA. By Sydney Trent WILMINGTON, N.C. — Cynthia Brown woke at 5 a.m., more than an hour earlier […]
WHERE THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM BLOCKS AMERICANS’ RIGHT TO VOTE. Some U.S. states have changed rules to restore voting rights for people with felony convictions. But many may not even realize they’re […]
HOW VOTERS ARE CASTING BALLOTS IN THE STATE THAT’S MADE IT THE HARDEST TO VOTE IN 2020. Mississippi has a long history of voter suppression. Its lack of pandemic accommodations […]
BLACK AMERICANS SHOULD NOT STIFLE THEIR VOICES — OR LET THEM BE STIFLED. GO VOTE. BY FREDERICA WILSON OCTOBER 31, 2020 It’s a question that has been asked during every […]
WITH LIL WAYNE, ICE CUBE AND 50 CENT, TRUMP MAKES FINAL PUSH FOR BLACK VOTERS. By Ayesha Rascoe October 30, 2020 Before President Trump left Miami on Thursday for another […]
BIDEN AIDES SEE WARNING SIGNS IN BLACK, LATINO TURNOUT SO FAR. By Tyler PagerOctober 30, 2020 Despite record early turnout, Black, Latino votes lag Top Biden aides confident seniors, suburban votes […]
THE PUSH AND PULL OF BEING A BLACK REPUBLICAN IN THE TRUMP ERA. There have always been Black conservatives and Republicans. In the Trump era, being one is a balancing […]