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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.



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."



by Sam Pizzigati
Our task ahead: preventing a deeply unequal world from recreating pre-pandemic business as usual.


A woman and her daughter receive food assistance for laid off Walt Disney World cast members and others at a food distribution event on December 12, 2020 in Orlando, Florida. (Photo: Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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."


11 December 2020, Hamburg: Activists with "Fridays for Future" display a prop demanding climate action on December 11, 2020 in Hamburg, Germany.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"It must be the year we take real action instead of continuing to repeat meaningless words and empty promises."


U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) heads to the Senate floor of the Capitol building on December 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. McConnell said today the Senate would “begin a process” to consider bigger Covid-19 relief, from the recently passed $600 per person to $2,000. (Photo: Tasos Katopidis/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"It's more than a stimulus check," admonished Rep. Barbara Lee. "It's a survival check."


Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) walks through the U.S. Capitol on October 21, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

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.'"


A woman walks past a "Covid-19 vaccine not yet available" sign outside a store in Arlington, Virginia on December 1, 2020.

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."



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.


Two children eat a food supplement at a government clinic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Photo: Prinsloo/UNICEF)

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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