This Week in Income Inequality

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When in doubt, use a picture of your dog. This is Cashew, my elderly three-legged friend. She is cold and wants to know why we are in the chilly kitchen instead of my cozy office. She will stand over this register until I finally finish my coffee and go upstairs. She has nothing to do with this news roundup on income inequality. But isn’t she sweet? (Photo by Michelle Teheux)

I’m trying something new this week. 

I post and share a lot of pieces that are in one way or another related to income inequality and to how money does or mostly does not work for the non-wealthy. 

So it occurred to me: Why don’t I collect all these once a week in a big round-up? I don’t expect that anyone can possibly read everything I post.

If you would like to suggest a story I missed, please add it in the comments!

If this proves popular, I’ll continue doing this every Friday. Let me know what you think!

GM, corporate greed, and the reason the Democrats lost the election

Robert Reich

“Keep in mind that the richest 1 percent of American hold over half of the value of all shares of stock held by Americans, and the richest 10 percent hold 92 percent.”

The Musk rat

Robert Reich

“Wherever great wealth connects with significant power, democracy suffers.”

We’re bed rotting while the wealthy cosplay as us

Dizzy Zaba of Demarcation

“It’s time to shift how we talk about the ‘digital divide.’ The digital divide is no longer about whether or not you have access to technology, but whether or not you have the ability to step away from it to do something else.”

She Was A Hell Raiser, Not a Humanitarian

Michele Hornish of Small Deeds Done

“ … it’s one of the best examples I know of a person who lived boldly and used her personal tragedy and setbacks and life experience as fuel – rather than as justification for giving up on herself. And in doing so, she made one hell of a difference in the world.

I thought you might need to hear that kind of story right now.

Because Mother Jones proves that you don’t need a fancy degree or an instruction manual to make a difference. You don’t need a consultant, or an advisor, or a coach to make your mark on this earth. You don’t need to be older, or younger, or more wealthy or more powerful.

Everyone has the power to be a Mother Jones. That includes you, friend.”

Cheap Eggs and Private School Tuition

By Jess Piper of The View from Rural Missouri

“But the boring part is the oligarchy. The way we have played the frogs in the slowly warming pot. The way we have acquiesced to failing infrastructure and defunded schools and closed hospitals. The way we co-signed onto oligarchy.

The way we owned the libs by paying taxes and then paying out of our own pockets for the things our taxes should have paid for. The way we fund the billionaires and suffer the loss of the public good.”

More Housing In Your Neighborhood Is a Progressive Value

By Hamilton Nolan of How Things Work

“The self-concept of liberals as generous people willing to help others falls apart on the issue of housing. On this issue, there is still nothing but castles with broad moats.”

Preparing our finances for a fascist regime

By Dana Miranda of Healthy Rich

“But I know personal finance is unavoidably political.

I’m going to keep writing about personal finance in the coming months even when it feels silly, because I know it’s not. Money in a capitalist society is freedom and safety and security and self-actualization and power and rest. And I have an opportunity to help folks have a better relationship with this vital resource.”

How to Stop the Billionaire Takeover: Democrats Must Declare Class Warfare

By Thom Hartmann of Daily Take

“The last century has seen two presidents engage in class warfare in a big and direct way that not only won them multiple elections but also altered the electoral map of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. There are multiple lessons to learn from both.”

Time to prepare

By J.P. Hill of New Means

“Labor as an anti-fascist force requires deeper organizing, more resources, more conversations, and a shift in how unions see their role in society. It’s time to shift into being a more comprehensive force for good, breaking out of narrow lanes and building transformative power rather than aiming for limited objectives.”

About Michelle Teheux

I’m a writer in central Illinois. If you like my work, subscribe to me here or on Medium. My latest non-fiction book is Strapped: Fighting for the soul of the American working class. My latest novel is The Trailer Park Rules.