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Sam Pizzigati, Other Words: A gusher of campaign cash is driving our politicians to chase the comfortable lifestyle of big business endorsements as politics becomes more about the bottom line than genuine change.

http://otherwords.org/political-calculations-behind-growing-inequality/


From Truthout



After the Shutdown, Maybe a Little Equality?

Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: Executives at private companies with federal contracts are getting rich off our tax dollars, at the expense of their low-wage workers. Today, more than ever, we need to refocus the federal 'tax and spend' debate, from deficits to inequality.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19253-after-the-shutdown-maybe-a-little-equality



Subsidizing Economic Inequality

Sam Pizzigati, Other Words: The federal government, we ought to keep in mind, already denies our tax dollars to companies with employment practices that discriminate on the basis of race or gender. We have decided, as a society, not to subsidize racial or gender inequality. Why should we subsidize economic inequality?

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19368-subsidizing-economic-inequality

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How Economic Inequality Harms Societies

TED Video

Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36224.htm



'Inequality for All': Documentary tracks American income gap

Video

Last year the gap between the wealthiest one percent of Americans and the rest of the country reached its widest point since the Gilded Age of the 1920s, according to global economists. The so called 'One Percenters' earned 20 percent of American income last year.

http://is.gd/xYcJBd


From Information Clearing House

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Inequality for All: Robert Reich Warns Record Income Gap Undermines Democracy
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/09/13-0

Jimmy Carter Slams Growing Inequality, Crumbling Middle Class
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/08-3

Campaign Cash Rules Drown in the Bathtub
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/24



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