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Corporations
Big Money’s War on Biden’s Popular Build Back Better Plan

Big Money’s War on Biden’s Popular Build Back Better Plan

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By Sondra Youdelman | – ( Otherwords.org ) – Right now, corporations and the ultra-rich are spending millions to derail President Biden’s Build Back Better plan. Behind the scenes, they’re hard at work to keep our elected officials from helping our country recover from the pandemic. Poll after poll tells us that Biden’s plan is […]

Inequality
Fund the Jobs bill by taxing the Billionaires who have made the $1.8 trillion during the Pandemic

Fund the Jobs bill by taxing the Billionaires who have made the $1.8 trillion during the Pandemic

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By Chuck Collins | – ( Otherwords.org) – As lawmakers scramble to finalize a historic jobs and infrastructure package, huge fights are underway to figure out how to fund it. The simplest, most effective, and most popular way is to tax the extremely wealthy, like the billionaires who’ve seen their collective wealth grow by $1.8 […]

Feminism
A Chill Wind: Texas Unleashes Bounty Hunters on Women

A Chill Wind: Texas Unleashes Bounty Hunters on Women

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( Otherwords.org) – For now, the Supreme Court has allowed Texas to sic bounty hunters on women seeking constitutionally protected abortions. By Martha Burk | September 8, 2021 Back in the 19th century, Texas was awash in vigilante groups. In those dark years, various self-appointed “law enforcers” modeled after the Texas Rangers embarked on a […]

Employment
Unemployment Insurance Isn’t Holding Back the Economy. Inequality Is.

Unemployment Insurance Isn’t Holding Back the Economy. Inequality Is.

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By Rebekah Entralgo | – An estimated 9 million Americans got the rug pulled out from under them over Labor Day weekend as enhanced pandemic federal unemployment benefits expired, leaving millions of families in the lurch during a record-breaking season for COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. Some 35 million people — nearly 1 in 10 Americans […]

Inequality
Tax the ‘Trillion-Dollar Seven’

Tax the ‘Trillion-Dollar Seven’

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By Bob Lord | – ( Otherwords.org ) – Democrats want to spend $3.5 trillion on jobs and infrastructure. A third of that could be covered by just seven billionaires. By Bob Lord | September 1, 2021 The collective wealth of the seven wealthiest Americans has now reached nearly $1 trillion. And these seven pay […]

Human Rights
Now Close Gitmo, Too

Now Close Gitmo, Too

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By Farrah Hassen | – ( Otherwords.org ) – I was a college student on 9/11. The ensuing “War on Terror,” anchored by the bombing and U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, has been with us ever since — virtually my entire adult life. President Biden was right to end the war in Afghanistan and follow through […]

African-Americans
Jim Crow was Never Dead, but the Black Church can Lead the Way in Banishing Voter Suppression

Jim Crow was Never Dead, but the Black Church can Lead the Way in Banishing Voter Suppression

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By Rev. Susan K. Smith and Rev. Levon C. Manzie | ( Otherwords.org) – We suspected it for years, and now we know it: Jim Crow was never dead. You might even say he was too mean to die. We know this because in too many places, the forces of racism are raging as laws […]

Employment
Congress needs to pass Labor Laws Protecting Union Drives and right to Strike

Congress needs to pass Labor Laws Protecting Union Drives and right to Strike

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By Rebekah Entralgo | – ( Otherwords.org) – Following one of the most high-profile union votes in history, workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama ultimately rejected efforts to form a union. But for labor advocates, this fight is far from over. “The Amazon workers who voted for a union in Bessemer are already […]

racism
Thinking Globally About Racial Justice

Thinking Globally About Racial Justice

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By Imani Countess | – ( Otherwords.org ) – Last summer, Black Lives Matter protests in the United States after the murder of George Floyd echoed around the world. Evoked by the worldwide visibility of the brutal killing on video, this solidarity also reflected visceral anger against police violence in a host of other countries […]

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