Inequality

Mexico’s 99% Demanded Justice By Showing FIFA, Billionaires, And Corporations A Red Card

July 25, 2026 Aline Zunzunegui, Inequality.org. Resist! Billionaires, Inequality, Mexico, world cup

The World Cup came home. For weeks, Mexico stood at the center of the world, carried there by the most beautiful and passionate game on earth. Millions of Mexicans took to the streets, filled public squares, improvised screens, and celebrated with strangers as if we had known each other all our lives. Isn’t that, in the end, the dream of any community? To meet without explanations, to share emotion with someone who wears different colors, lives in another neighborhood, or thinks differently? Celebration suspends, for a moment, the logic of productivity. It hands back something a predatory system has taken from us: shared time.

Measuring True Economic Progress Matters

June 16, 2026 Jen Risley, Choose Indie Local. Create! Benefit Corporations, Economic Impact, Inequality, Local Economy

Author and local economist Michael Shuman recently shared his report card on the local economy movement and introduced twelve ways we can measure success in our local economy. Yes, stories matter—but data that points to true economic progress matters, too. Michael first shared his SWOT analysis of our movement. He followed his analysis with a summary of twelve recommendations for easy-to-measure indicators that we can revisit over time, helping us evaluate our successes and shortcomings and better answer: Is our hard work making a difference in our local economy? These indicators should be quantifiable, robust, and affordable.

History Suggests Inequality Ends In Catastrophe

May 19, 2026 Jeremy Lent, Resilience. Strategize! Adaptation, Crisis, History, Inequality, social transformation

There may never have been a group that had it so good as the Japanese plutocrats of the 1930s. In that era, the richest one percent of Japanese society captured twenty percent of national income — a third more than the top earners in America command today. Within a decade, however, most of that bounty had vanished. Their share of national income collapsed by more than two-thirds; the value of their estates fell by 98 percent. What happened? Total war, total defeat, and foreign occupation. Mass mobilization forced the state to intervene in industrial production, double income taxes, restrict dividends, and requisition merchant ships.

April Job Market Report Mixed

May 11, 2026 Masao Suzuki, Fight Back! News. Educate! California, Inequality, Unemployment, Worker Rights and Jobs

San José, CA – On Friday, May 8, the Bureau of Labor Statistics or BLS, which is under the federal Department of Labor, released their monthly job market report for the month of April. The report was mixed, with strength shown by businesses while households showed weaknesses, reflecting the growing polarization in the economy. The employment report, based on a survey of businesses, was strong relative to the weak hiring in 2025, with 115,000 new jobs created. There were still pockets of weakness, with government jobs declining by 8000, making April the seventh month in a row of job losses by government workers.

Over A Billion People In The World Live With Disabilities

May 8, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Educate! Disabilities, Disability Rights, Global South, Inequality

Disability is not merely a biological condition; it is shaped by the interaction between impairment and the world around it: by the broken road that prevents a wheelchair from moving forward, by the clinic or hospital that charges fees before offering care, by the classroom that excludes the child who learns differently, by the war that shatters bodies, and by the economy that abandons those it deems ‘unproductive’. Disability is not simply a restriction resulting from an impairment, but a collision between impairment, social barriers, and injustice.

US Inequality Is Way Past Revolution Time

November 14, 2025 Lee Camp, Substack. Educate! Capitalism, Children, Class Struggle, Inequality, Poverty

One would think that perhaps the greatest benefit of being a cog in the wheel of a bloodthirsty, predatory, wholly unaccountable, rapacious global empire is being rich. Not rich in an Elon Musk / Monopoly Guy kinda way but rich in a not languishing in poverty kinda way. …But this is not true. A large percentage of Americans never get to touch the spoils of hegemony. “Over 40% of the U.S. population—including 48.9% of children—is considered poor or low income.” You read that right. According to a new Oxfam report, half of all American children live in poor or low-income homes. …HALF.

Public Transit ‘Death Spiral’: A Warning For Other Underfunded Cities

September 9, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Resist! Inequality, Philadelphia, Poverty, Public Transit, Public transportation, Racism, SEPTA, Transportation

Philadelphia’s transit system plunged into crisis on August 24, when the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) slashed bus, trolley, subway, and Regional Rail service by 20%. SEPTA eliminated 32 bus routes, shortened 16 more, and reduced the frequency of other bus and train lines. The crisis occurred as a result of state lawmakers failing to close a USD 213 million budget gap. The funding standoff left the city’s 746,500 SEPTA riders stranded and pushed the nation’s sixth-largest transit agency toward what officials call a “death spiral” – which has deeply impacted the disproportionately Black and lower-income SEPTA ridership.

African Union Joins Calls To End Use Of Mercator Map That Shrinks It’s Size

September 3, 2025 Reuters, Portside. Resist! African Union, Global South, Inequality, Maps

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size. Created by the cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation, the projection distorts continent sizes, enlarging areas near the poles like North America and Greenland while shrinking Africa and South America. “It might seem to be just a map, but in reality, it is not,” the African Union Commission deputy chair, Selma Malika Haddadi, told Reuters, saying the Mercator fostered a false impression that Africa was “marginal”, despite being the world’s second-largest continent by area, with more than 1 billion people. The union has 55 member states.

One Of Hurricane Katrina’s Most Important Lessons Isn’t About Storm Preparations

August 23, 2025 Iris Garcia, Deirdre Davis and Walter Gillis Peacock, Counterpunch. Educate! Hurricane Katrina, Inequality, New Orleans, Racial disparities, Redlining

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans, the images still haunt us: entire neighborhoods underwater, families stranded on rooftops and a city brought to its knees. We study disaster planning at Texas A&M University and look for ways communities can improve storm safety for everyone, particularly low-income and minority neighborhoods. Katrina made clear what many disaster researchers have long found: Hazards such as hurricanes may be natural, but the death and destruction is largely human-made. New Orleans was born unequal. As the city grew as a trade hub in the 1700s, wealthy residents claimed the best real estate, often on higher ground formed by river sediment.

When The Empire Chokes, The South Breathes

August 22, 2025 Prince Kapone, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! Africa, Asia, BRICS, Capitalism, Global South, Globalization, Inequality, Middle East, Political economy, South America, US Imperialism

The story they sell is that “order” was built by reasoned men in sensible suits. The story we live is different. Multipolarity did not grow out of seminars or summits; it is the aftershock of five centuries of plunder, the recoil from wars and sanctions, and the refusal of the colonized to keep paying for someone else’s civilization. Its genealogy runs from the Bandung Communiqué (1955)—the first great gathering where the majority of humanity spoke in its own name—through the long detour of debt, structural adjustment, and counter-insurgency masquerading as “development.” Bandung’s promise was simple and subversive: sovereignty, peaceful coexistence, cooperation, and a say in the world economy for those who actually make the world economy run.

The Monsters Of The Global Crisis Interregnum

August 18, 2025 Carmen Navas Reyes, People's Dispatch. Strategize! BRICS, Capitalism, climate crisis, Hunger, Imperialism, Inequality, Neocolonialism, Poverty

The famous quote by Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci seems to have been written for the moment humanity is currently experiencing: “The old is dying, and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum, monsters arise.” The world is going through a civilizational crisis in which the neoliberal capitalist order, although mortally wounded, continues to impose its predatory logic, that of the use of force and the resurgence of fascism, while emancipatory alternatives fail to consolidate. In this vacuum, monsters proliferate: wars and attempts at recolonization, climate crisis, structural hunger, collapse of multilateralism and international law placed at the service of the world’s powers that be.

Our Smartphone-Dependent Culture Is Repeating The Mistakes Of Car-Centric Infrastructure

July 26, 2025 Owen Haacke, Next City. Strategize! Accessibility, Inequality, Science and technology, Smart Phones

Our inventions offer solutions and convenience; the systems we build bind us to them. Just look at our roads, wide strips of asphalt laid down for one invention: the car. Designed for mobility and convenience, the car quietly restructured our lives. Most of us spend our days behind the wheel, navigating a system built for cars. I see roads as canyons stretching between cities and suburbs, isolating homes, schools, offices and stores. In a car, we glide through them — we are part of the system. On foot, we are stranded, as if the world were not built for us.

Can We Build Public And Political Support For Tackling Inequality?

June 29, 2025 Will Snell, Inequality.org. Strategize! Fairness, Inequality, United Kingdom (UK), Wealthy Class

Wherever you live these days, you’re likely seeing plenty of evidence that political polarization is increasing all around you. Some of this polarization is reinforcing conventional left-right fault lines. Elsewhere in the world, other divisions — cultural, social, geographic, intergenerational — have ripped up and replaced those traditional polarizations. Socio-economic inequality has, of course, long rated as one of those conventional fault lines. The right has typically seen inequality as an inevitable — perhaps even necessary and desirable — byproduct of the dynamism that drives prosperity. Inequality, this argument contends, incentivizes and rewards effort and entrepreneurial risk-taking.

South Africa’s Long Road To Land Reform

February 11, 2025 Jonis Ghedi-Alasow, People's Dispatch. Strategize! colonization, Hunger, Inequality, Land Reform, Land Rights, South Africa, White Supremacy

On January 23, 2025, South Africa enacted an Expropriation Act, updating the methods for land expropriation for the first time in fifty years. The new Act allows for land expropriation for public purposes and interests whilst introducing the possibility of zero compensation for expropriated land. Consequently, the Act’s scope has been broadened since its 1975 version. Land can still be expropriated for public purposes, such as constructing roads, an uncontroversial and universally accepted practice. The expansion of the scope to include public interest, however, also enables the Act to address a long-standing issue of land reform.

Artificial Intelligence Means ‘Oh No’ For Low-Income Americans

January 29, 2025 Kevin De Liban, Inequality.org. Educate! Artificial Intelligence, Inequality, Low Income, Worker Rights and Jobs

The billions of dollars poured into artificial intelligence (AI) haven’t delivered on the technology’s promised revolutions, such as better medical treatment, advances in scientific research, or increased worker productivity. So, the AI hype train purveys the underwhelming: slightly smarter phones, text-prompted graphics, and quicker report-writing (if the AI hasn’t made things up). Meanwhile, there’s a dark underside to the technology that goes unmentioned by AI’s carnival barkers — the widespread harm that AI presently causes low-income people.

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