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Iran: Will Voters’ Economic Gloom Doom Rouhani’s Reelection Bid?

By Nader Habibi | (The Conversation) | - - Markets breathed a collective sigh of relief after Emmanuel Macron won the French presidency. But there’s another vote this month that’s just as…

Can Climate Solutions also help Low-Income Consumers fight inequality?

By Basav Sen. | ( Inequality.org) | - - Renew Oregon is advancing innovative climate justice proposals, building on a legislative victory to expand the state’s use of renewable energy, with strong…

Why $54 bn for Pentagon won’t fix US Security

By Rajan Menon | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Donald Trump’s supporters believe that his election will end business as usual in Washington. The self-glorifying Trump agrees and indeed his has,…

As Trump Budget Hurts Old, Meals on Wheels Sees Donations Surge

TeleSur | - - One in six seniors "struggles with hunger," according to Meals on Wheels, which provides free services to those who cannot afford to pay. Meals on Wheels America, the…

The Rural-Urban Divide in the US in 6 Charts!

By Brian Thiede, Lillie Greiman, Stephan Weiler, Steven C. Beda, Tessa Conroy | (The Conversation) | - - Editor’s note: We’ve all heard of the great divide between life in rural and…

It’s Racism, Stupid. America’s Persistent Racial Wealth Divide

By Josh Hoxie | ( Inequality.org ) | - - A new study shows the legacy of racism far outweighs individual financial decisions in driving the growing gap between black and white…

Even in the Trump Era, Inequality can be Reduced

By Josh Hoxie | (Otherwords.org) | - - With Washington looking hopeless, it's up to local communities to close the gap between the richest and the rest. In a lot of ways,…

It’s the Economy, Stupid: Ending ‘Religious’ Violence in the Middle East

Moha Ennaji | (Project Syndicate) | - - FEZ – The escalation of radicalism, violence, and civil wars in the Middle East since the so-called Arab Spring revolts began in 2010 has…

GOP Convention Opens in City Pillaged by Its Policies

TeleSur | - - Cleveland, once called the Mistake on the Lake, hosts nominating convention of the political party that authored its downfall Just a few miles from downtown Cleveland's preoccupied hum…

Is the Mideast disintegrating or just being Auctioned Off?

By Patrick Cockburn | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - We live in an age of disintegration. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Greater Middle East and Africa. Across the vast…

Aside from Super-Rich, All Americans are poorer this century

TeleSur | - - Soon, researchers predict, the middle class will no longer be the largest class in the United States. Households in the United States made less money in 2014 than…

When Corporations use havens, you Pay their taxes; & the leading Candidates have Havens

By Nomi Prins with Craig Wilson | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - There’s a pile of money hiding offshore. It’s true that jobs are also leaving the United States because American companies find…

Now the 1% Live 15 yrs longer than the Poorest: The Death Gap’s Increasing

By Sam Pizzigati | ( Otherwords.org) | - - Rich people live longer than poor people. No big news there — we’ve known that health tracks wealth for quite some time now.…

What is Political Revolution and Can Bernie Sanders Deliver?

By Ali R. Abootalebi | (Informed Comment) | - - The 2016 American presidential election can prove to be a turning point in the development of American politics. This is not because…

Why Americans are Angry: The Minimum Wage Trap

By Peter Van Buren | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - When presidential candidate Bernie Sanders talks about income inequality, and when other candidates speak about the minimum wage and food stamps, what…

Deepening Inequality Driving US Middle Class into Oblivion

By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | - - "The hollowing of the middle has proceeded steadily for four decades, and it may have reached a tipping point," Pew Research Center…

After 2008 Wall Street Crash, did US White Working Class Drink itself to Death?

Barbara Ehrenreich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - The white working class, which usually inspires liberal concern only for its paradoxical, Republican-leaning voting habits, has recently become newsworthy for something else: according to economist…

The GOP Race as America’s Hunger Games

Nomi Prins | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - Fact: too many Republican candidates are clogging the political scene. Perhaps what’s needed is an American Hunger Games to cut the field to size. Each…

Climate Change to throw 100 mn. People into Poverty

By Thalif Deen | (Inter Press Service) | - - UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - The UN’s heavily-hyped Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were approved by more than 160 world leaders at a…