economic inequality

The Green New Deal: Why We Can’t Fight Climate Change Without Addressing Inequality

By Tully Comfort age 12 and Indykids Staff In February of this year, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bill Markey introduced in Congress a Green New Deal (GND) resolution to take on inequality while eliminating climate pollution, by creating jobs with higher wages and bringing clean air and water to people across the country. Climate …

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Civil Rights THEN and NOW

Today in 2014, 50 years after the passage of the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964, much is still left to be done. In many ways, the battles fought in the past share similar themes with challenges we face today.

Movie Review: Inequality for All

In the documentary film, Inequality for All, Robert Reich explores why the United States has so much income inequality, and why the financial gap between the rich and the poor is widening.