October 23, 2020 by V Leigh

The top 1% of Americans

BREAKING: The Seattle Human Services Department just announced that providing housing to Seattle’s 12,000 homeless would be “reckless and irresponsible”. Over 1 in 10 Seattle apartments are currently empty. We are in a pandemic and our air is at toxic levels due to wildfires. https://t.co/9OQnV1F6r6
— Dae (@daeshikjr) September 17, 2020

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The top 1% of Americans have taken $50 trillion from the bottom 90%—and that’s made the U.S. less secure https://t.co/o7Nm9JUOWI
— TIME (@TIME) September 14, 2020

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May 18, 2020 by V Leigh

“There’s a cruelty here that I don’t think I’ve seen”

Striking garbage workers in New Orleans, making $10.25 an hour, were fired en masse this week.

Now, they are being replaced by prison labor. https://t.co/Os5a52qOo5
— Mike Elk (@MikeElk) May 10, 2020

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Capitalism has brought about levels of income inequality that are unjust and unsustainable.

Three men in America own more wealth than the bottom HALF of the country. This is disturbing. Unfettered capitalism is not the path forward.#RIPCapitalism

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— McAuley 🍽 (@McauleyHolmes) May 13, 2020

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On top of years of income inequality, women have also been most heavily affected by this economic crisis. We have a responsibility to provide aid to displaced workers and ensure equal pay for women as they re-enter the workforce. https://t.co/iDQciwYF78
— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) May 11, 2020

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Before the early 1980s, there weren’t millions of people experiencing homelessness in the United States. The modern crisis can be traced to drastic Reagan-era cuts to affordable housing in the middle of an economic recession. https://t.co/W3nLJSaPiE
— The Appeal (@theappeal) April 25, 2020

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“There’s a cruelty here that I don’t think I’ve seen…” As I have said before, homelessness and housing insecurity are directly connected to income inequality. Time to fix that. #waleg @markoliias America’s Cities Could House Everyone if They Chose To https://t.co/3jO1TlQL7c
— Patty Kuderer (@senpattykuderer) May 17, 2020

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January 14, 2020 by V Leigh

We need to raise the minimum wage and tie it to inflation.

ICYMI: @AyannaPressley @IlhanMN talk Black economic opportunity in Boston https://t.co/1p6yrL2sFw

— rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) January 12, 2020

"If the federal minimum wage in 1968 had kept up with inflation and productivity, it would now be $22 an hour. Instead, it’s $7.25," write @NickKristof and @WuDunn https://t.co/fh9SlEvp7r

— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) January 10, 2020

Raising the minimum wage by $1 or more appears to reduce the suicide rate, especially in times when unemployment is high and it's hard to find a job, a new study finds.https://t.co/gJOB8k0miN

— NPR (@NPR) January 9, 2020

The federal minimum wage is still $7.25/hr. https://t.co/ZLw6SdPhUy

— West Virginia IWW (@WestVirginiaIWW) January 11, 2020

We need to raise the minimum wage and tie it to inflation.

And we need to make sure we leave no tipped workers behind.https://t.co/MQYI1z4t23

— Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez (@cristinafortx) January 11, 2020

February 16, 2017 by Glenn (Freedom of Movement) Robinson

The War on Drugs

#TBT Nixon aide John Ehrlichman admitted to creating the war on drugs to criminalize hippies & Black people. #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM pic.twitter.com/gRZQPiGGZV

— Sarah Freed (@sar_freed) February 16, 2017

War on Drugs is War on People

July 17, 2015 by Oppression Monitor

California cheerleaders win right to be paid and treated like regular employees

A new law just signed by Gov. Jerry Brown gives employee rights to professional cheerleaders, including the right to receive at least minimum wage and to be paid for all practices and appearances.

Sourced through Scoop.it from: money.cnn.com

This took way to long. Shameful history.
Requiring cheerleaders to work without pay? Seriously!? With all the money that sports brings in!? Female indentured servants.#WomensRights

December 12, 2014 by Oppression Monitor

White-black wealth gap widens to near record levels

Wealth gap between whites and blacks and whites and Hispanics widens to near record levels.

Source: money.cnn.com

November 10, 2014 by Glenn (Freedom of Movement) Robinson

Income inequality impairs the American dream of upward mobility – debate [VIDEO]

The elephant in the room that I did not hear in the debate is that the question should have not used the word inequality. Instead they should have used the word inequity.

“Income inequity impairs the American dream of upward mobility.”

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Source: communityvillageus.blogspot.com

August 7, 2014 by Glenn (Freedom of Movement) Robinson

New statistics: Pregnancy discrimination claims hit low-wage workers hardest

New data from the EEOC show that pregnancy discrimination hits virtually every industry and every geographic area of the country.

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

June 20, 2014 by Glenn (Freedom of Movement) Robinson

This Law Was Based on a Racist Stereotype. Now It Punishes Thousands of Families for Being Poor.

Last April, Melissa Ortiz, a low-income mother of four, gave testimony to a committee of the California Assembly detailing her life on the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program, or CalWORKs, the state’s welfare program. “When we first had the twins, the only person in my family getting…

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March 20, 2014 by Glenn (Freedom of Movement) Robinson

The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide

“For every dollar owned by the average white family in the United States, the average family of color has less than a dime. Why do people of color have so little wealth? The Color of Wealth lays bare a dirty secret: for centuries, people of color have been barred by laws and by discrimination from participating in government wealth-building programs that benefit white Americans.”

Community Village‘s insight:

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