Somewhere between “teachers shouldn’t have to sell their own blood to make rent” & “billionaires with helipads and full-time workers on food stamps shouldn’t exist in the same society” https://t.co/utYrwSObNN
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 15, 2019
.@AOC: "The vast majority of Americans know that income inequality is one of the biggest issues of our time." @HillTVLive https://t.co/2eO3xwiwmL pic.twitter.com/AEK8Y3tKH3
— The Hill (@thehill) January 15, 2019
Fascinating study: Americans *vastly under-estimate inequality in the U.S., particularly racial disparities.
They guess that black Americans are 80% as wealthy as white Americans.
In fact, blacks are just 5% as wealthy as whites.https://t.co/2pJoIlTw4B pic.twitter.com/H17tugsb9c
— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) January 6, 2019
As I was saying. https://t.co/Rp8Ko0U7Ka
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 10, 2019
Capitalism isn’t working right.
The U.S. economy is growing, but workers are seeing less and less of the benefits https://t.co/M5rKCRehmS pic.twitter.com/QauIZ6Ia98
— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) January 5, 2019
American "meritocracy" in one graph: the growing gap in how much the wealthiest people spend on their kids, compared to everyone else. https://t.co/N8cnCWr6xI pic.twitter.com/MTQ76Tia2g
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) December 27, 2018
The economy is growing in the US, so why are people still so unhappy and angry? This amazing chart might be the answer. (h/t Torsten Slok, @DeutscheBank) pic.twitter.com/XORk1EyZuI
— John Authers (@johnauthers) December 13, 2017
"Economists are calling the economy 'great' because that’s what they’re used to doing. They just mean that most people have jobs. This standard terminology ignores the question of how much those jobs pay, or which classes of society reap the gains."https://t.co/hq1VmkQXyF
— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) December 1, 2018
I pointed out that income inequality has grown (objectively true) and Forbes accuses me of becoming “a lefty” with “baseless disdain for capitalism.” Oh, brother. This is how ideologues react to reality. https://t.co/5kteZXfwiZ
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) December 3, 2018
As rural America gets left behind by the rise of coastal superstar cities and the chasm between the richest and the rest widens, one entity is heavily profiting from the blight: the dollar store. https://t.co/EYuwoCasYz
— Axios (@axios) January 1, 2019
Sad! 