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[Cat Goughnour @CatGoughnour]

U.S. Black farmers lost $326 bln worth of land in 20th century

The study calculated the compounded value of declining acreage owned by AA between 1920-1997 in 17 states where almost all Black-owned farms were documented (data: USDA Census of Agriculture)

https://t.co/Aup0KpHAgy

[Inequality.org @inequalityorg]

“It's discouraging to see how underrepresented women are at the top and how overrepresented they continue to be at the bottom of the income scale” -- @SarahDAnderson1 of @IPS_DC

https://t.co/bmPIzaCrQK

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

Before you share online, pause and ask these questions before you share⬇️

⏸️ PAUSE
Interrupt your emotional response.
🤔 THINK
Take a breath. Trigger critical thinking.
❓ SHARE
Don’t share it if you don’t trust it.

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#PledgeToPause ⏸️

[Americans For Tax Fairness @4TaxFairness]

BREAKING: America's billionaires have officially gotten $2 TRILLION richer during the pandemic, largely tax-free

Elon Musk's wealth alone shot up by 1,080%

Workers struggling to afford gas, groceries, healthcare are paying their fair share this Tax Day. Billionaires should too.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

America’s 735 billionaires could pay down **all** student loan debt in the nation and still be as rich as they were two years ago before the pandemic. Go figure.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Good afternoon. If the minimum wage had increased at the same rate as Wall Street bonuses since 1985, it would be worth $61.75 today.

[Paul Gorski @EquityLiteracy]

Here's what I've learned: When somebody says, "The problem is class, not race," it almost always means the problem is race. Maybe it's also class. But it's definitely race.

[Radix Consulting Group @right2root]

@MonicaLewisPat1 @WeThePeopleDet @uwaterlooARTS Congratulations!!

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Corporate taxes as a percent of federal revenue have plummeted from 25% in the 1950s to 7 percent today, while income taxes and payroll taxes have made up the difference. If we want to pay for all the things America needs, corporate taxes must increase significantly.

[Center on Budget @CenterOnBudget]

If made permanent, the improvements of the recent provisions to expand the #ChildTaxCredit will reduce the child poverty rate by more than 40%.

Forty percent fewer hungry kids sounds pretty good to us.

https://t.co/2anDk5CqWJ

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

A short history of corporate tax rates:

Reagan: 34%
Clinton: 35%
Bush: 35%
Obama: 35%
Trump: 21%
Many of biggest corporations: 0%

Biden's plan: 28%
Manchin says he'd agree to: 25%

Why not go back to 35% under Obama? Answer: Corporate lobbyists and campaign contributions.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Had the minimum wage increased at the same rate as Wall Street bonuses since 1985, it would now be $44 an hour.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The pay for CEOs has increased 1,322% from 1978 to 2020. Meanwhile, the wages of American workers have remained virtually flat.

This is the definition of a rigged system.

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

$7.25/hour is $15,000/year — that’s NOT a living wage.

It’s time to raise the wage and lift hardworking people out of poverty.

[Radix Consulting Group @right2root]

#perspective

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

Whenever I see stories about how the min wage will doom businesses, they never talk about us.

We doubled our small biz min wage to $70k. After, our business tripled. Productivity grew. Employees were happier. Exec pay plummeted.

No one ever asked me to testify on how we did it.

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

Again, we’ve lost 9M jobs during the pandemic.

1) How does cutting people’s unemployment benefits by $100/wk incentivize them to return to jobs that don’t exist?

2) What basis is there to assume we’ll have 9M new jobs by September?

3) How does this make any economic sense?

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The average minimum wage worker would need to work a staggering 79 hours a week to afford a one-bedroom rental in 95 percent of U.S. counties...in the richest country on Earth.

If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

I will never stop fighting to make the minimum wage a living wage.

It's long overdue that we give 32 million workers a raise and lift a million people out of poverty.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Federal minimum wage:

1990: $3.80

2000: $5.15

2010: $7.25

2021: $7.25

Number of U.S. billionaires:

1990: 66

2000: 298

2010: 401

2021: 664

Does anyone else see a problem with this picture?