Jake Johnson at CommonDreams writes—US Inequality Crisis Worst in Industrialized World. Trump Will Make It Worse:
The United States is already the most unequal industrialized nation in the world, and a new report published on Monday shows that President Donald Trump's agenda would only make matters worse.
"The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index," developed by Oxfam in partnership with Development Finance International (DFI), uses several factors to "measure the commitment of governments to reducing the gap between the rich and the poor."
Compared to other wealthy nations, the report concludes, the U.S. is doing "very badly" in the fight against income and wealth inequality.
"The CRI Index measures government efforts in three policy areas or 'pillars': social spending, taxation, and labor," the authors—Oxfam's Max Lawson and DFI's Matthew Martin—note. "These were selected because of widespread evidence that strong positive progressive actions by governments in these three areas have played a key part in reducing the gap between rich and poor."
Lawson and Martin continue:
[...] Oxfam's research has shown that, since the turn of the century, the poorest half of the world's population has received just 1% of the total increase in global wealth, while the top 1% received 50% of the increase. [...]
"The USA is the wealthiest country in the history of the world, but its level of inequality is also the highest among major industrial countries, leaving tens of millions of working people impoverished—especially women and people of color," Lawson and Martin observe. [...]
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I hate to say this about anyone, but NY Post columnist John Podhoretz is an asshole. To what do we owe this ad hominem attack? In his latest column, Podhoretz urges the president to invade Iraq in order to boost his numbers and improve GOP chances in November.
You're in some domestic political trouble, Mr. President. You need to change the subject. You have the biggest subject-changer of all at your disposal. Use it.
Even if Iraq is unable to kill a single soldier or airman, Americans will still die. Fatal accidents are common in the military, and such accidents are obviously more common when waging war (just ask the Canadians).
For this columnist to callously condemn Americans to certain death in order to boost the president's political fortunes is nothing short of barbaric.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, we clean up after another weekend of Don Jr. treason meeting stories & speculation. Who were the players? How many were there? How dirty were they? Why did Jay Sekulow implicate the Secret Service? Also, will Trump declare war on the Arizona GOP?
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