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Our energy bills get higher while CEOs line their pockets.

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15 years after Occupy Wall Street, a reminder that struggles against inequality have a long legacy.
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Tech billionaires don't want their wealth taxed in California.

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Corporate profits are soaring while worker wages stagnate.

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Tech money is flowing into the midterm elections at astounding rates.

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This Labor Day let's get workers their fair share back.

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CEO pay goes up; ours doesn't.

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New Mexico captures more profits from oil and gas than any other state. Is that deal worth it for its residents, especially ones that live near sites of extraction? https://t.co/G8CduP9nhH

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CEOs are lobbying hard... just not for things that benefit their employees.

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Our co-editor @SarahDAnderson1 has a blistering op-ed in the @latimes denouncing the wealthy CEOs of Target, Walmart, DoorDash and other low-wage corporations for looking the other way as ICE goes after their employees.

https://t.co/2bIfVtz2ml

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No, you’re not crazy. Your pay isn’t enough. New IPS @inequalityorg findings on @MSNOW_Reports:

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If you exclude Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, the CEO-worker pay gap in America stands at an already obscene 312 to 1. With Musk’s $158 billion payday, the gap rises to an astonishing 5,387 to 1.

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When Congress passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, it ignored what’s driving rents up and leading landlords to defer maintenance. Our Housing Policy Director Ruthy Gourevitch is quoted in a new @inequalityorg story on the bill's shortcomings—link below.

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Bol, DC's first cooperatively-owned bookstore, offers an alternative model for bookselling and popular education for local communities. https://t.co/nDyKnHJto0

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In 1980, the average major corporate CEO earned just 42 times as much as the average U.S. worker. In 2025, according to new AFL-CIO Paywatch data, S&P 500 firm CEOs pocketed 312 times as much as average workers.

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Details on the bipartisan action to ban stock buybacks by military contractors: https://t.co/keybA2SpHc

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Military contractors are using stock buybacks to artificially inflate the value of their CEOs' stock-based pay. Senators from both sides of the aisle are pushing a bipartisan proposal to ban this practice.

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“The unfairness of how corporate wealth is distributed is off the charts and people want action to change that,” said @Sarahdanderson1 at the @IPS_DC. “I think we could be seeing the beginning of a serious backlash.”
https://t.co/lkIY2SViE6 via @FT

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College graduates need to reframe their cultural and environmental priorities for the whole working class, argues a new report from the Center for Working Class Politics https://t.co/hZnseM1Txe

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"These CEOs are living on a remote economic planet from the one that their employees are living on & it makes it hard for them to fathom what it’s like to worry about putting food on your table or being detained by ICE.” - @SarahDAnderson1
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