Tag: inequality

Some constitutional rights are more equal than others, as in abortion vs. guns.

"Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our moral debts, America will never be whole."

It's simple, to solve inequality in America, you just take $4 trillion from the top 40 percent and give it to the bottom 60 percent. That'll work.

Income inequality — the difference between what the rich earn and what everyone else earns — is higher in the United States than in developed countries the world over. Moving against the trend established in the rest of developed societies, the gap between the rich and the rest of Americans has widened over the past 30 years. It has also grown wider during the recession, contrary to most predictions. Since the 1990s, the richest of the rich have pulled away from the merely wealthy, while the recession has made more and more Americans poor.