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Your Week in Review
Amid Warnings of Surging Worldwide Poverty, Planet's 500 Richest People Added $1.8 Trillion to Combined Wealth in 2020
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Bloomberg 's year-end report on the wealth of the world's billionaires
shows that the richest 500 people on the planet added $1.8 trillion to
their combined wealth in 2020, accumulating a total net worth of $7.6
trillion.
Paygo Exemptions in House Rules Will Help Pave Way for Green New Deal and Medicare for All, Progressives Say
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
" Paygo's the biggest scam of the decade, designed to legitimize the
fear-mongering over artificial deficits. This is a big win by
progressives."
In 2021, Let's Ring a Global Alarm—on Inequality—That Everyone Can Hear
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by Sam Pizzigati
Our task ahead: preventing a deeply unequal world from recreating
pre-pandemic business as usual.
81 Senators Vote to Override Trump Veto of NDAA as GOP Continues to Block $2,000 Relief Checks
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"At a time when so many Americans are facing economic desperation," said
Sen. Bernie Sanders, "it is tragic that the Republican leadership has
turned their backs on the working families of this country."
Youth Activists Ring In 2021 With Renewed Demand That World 'Wake Up to the Climate Crisis'
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"It must be the year we take real action instead of continuing to repeat
meaningless words and empty promises."
As New Jobless Figures Show 'Massive Pain on the Eve of the New Year,' Dems Rip McConnell for Stonewalling $2,000 Relief Checks
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by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"It's more than a stimulus check," admonished Rep. Barbara Lee. "It's a
survival check."
'Tired of That Hypocrisy': Sanders Blasts GOP for Claiming $2,000 Checks Are Too Costly After Passing $1.5 Trillion in Tax Cuts
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"When you stand up and you say that working class families need some
help, 'Oh my god, the world is gonna collapse.'"
'This Is Warp Speed?' At Current Pace, US Will Take 10 Years to Adequately Vaccinate the Public Against Covid-19, Analysis Warns
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We should have been prepared to start inoculating millions of people
the day a vaccine was approved. This is a massive policy failure."
UN Experts Condemn Trump's Pardon of Blackwater Contractors as 'Affront to Justice'
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
A group of United Nations experts on the use of mercenaries said
Wednesday that President Donald Trump committed an "affront to justice"
earlier this month when he pardoned four former Blackwater security
contractors for the war crimes they were convicted of in 2015.
Faced With Concurrent Crises, UNICEF Warns Millions of Children Threatened by 'Looming Famine'
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"For countries reeling from the consequences of conflicts, disasters,
and climate change, Covid-19 has turned a nutrition crisis into an
imminent catastrophe."
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