Tag: inequality
Systemic Healthcare And Income Inequality Are Why COVID-19 Is Killing Black People
What good are drive-up testing sites if you don’t have a car? Dr. Leon McDougle explains how successful health outcomes are tilted against black and…
Congressional Candidate Urges Rent Strikes To Protect Tenants
Washington DSA member Joshua Collins’ digital campaign is courting pissed off young voters. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer:…
Police Repression Backfires As Protests Multiply
Professor Lester Spence argues America is facing two pandemics: COVID-19 and political policing. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer:…
‘Tough On Crime’ Cities Might Make Violence Worse
Baltimore’s leading mayoral candidates are embracing calls for change, but their proposals risk worsening mass incarceration and inequality. Director/Video Editor: Bababtunde Ogunfolaju Visual Producer: Andrew…
Striking bakery workers in CA demand respect
Since Nov. 3, workers represented by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers’ International Union (BCTGM) Local 37 have been on strike against Rich…
Global ‘hyper-inequality’ exploded during the pandemic
The concentration of wealth in the hands of a select few has become a global problem that poses a threat to the basic functioning of…
The drug-resistant bacteria crisis no one’s talking about
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the world for the past two years, but there’s a potentially deadlier threat creeping across the globe right now that…
The Marc Steiner Show: These US states are billionaire tax havens
The US has become a major global tax haven. For a discussion on this worrying trend and its effects on wealth inequality, Marc Steiner speaks…
UK teachers join nationwide strike wave
TRNN heads to a protest in central London and speaks directly with striking teachers, pupils, and other unions who have came out for Britain’s largest…
Workers Strike Back coalition for a $25 min wage & more w/Kshama Sawant | The Chris Hedges Report
After over a decade on Seattle City Council, socialist Kshama Sawant is launching a national coalition called Workers Strike Back to fight for wages, universal…
Neoliberalism’s anti-democratic stealth revolution w/Wendy Brown
Half a century of neoliberalism has transformed the politics of the globe. The supremacy of free market ideology has stripped away the commons and reduced…
Trump and how America treats the rich vs. the poor | Rattling the Bars
Former President Donald Trump is facing 34 felony counts in New York State and an additional 37 felony federal charges. None of this prevents him…
Slave labor and sexism at Shoprite Namibia
Content warning: This story contains references to suicide. Shoprite Holdings, the largest supermarket retail chain in Africa, is under fire from workers organizing against grueling…
Poverty in America is by design w/Matthew Desmond | The Chris Hedges Report
Some 50 million people in the United States live in poverty today—and over 108 million people survive on less than $55,000 a year. Despite having…
