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The Capitalist Veto: Why America Cannot Build What Its People Need

Solar waits, patients suffer, and workers sit idle while corporations demand maximum extraction. This exposes the grand economic con behind “free markets.”

Republicans Break the Economy, Democrats Fix It—Why Does America Keep Forgetting?

Democrats repeatedly inherit Republican economic wreckage. History, GDP data, jobs, and inflation expose the myth that Republicans manage the economy better.

Cheryl Winokur Munk: Big wage fight in Oklahoma! A June ballot measure to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2029 is a test for progressive economics in a deep red state. Business groups and Governor Stitt oppose the hike; grassroots organizers push for change. See full details.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/31/oklahoma-minimum-wage-2026-election-vote-economy-inflation.html
#MinimumWage #OklahomaPolitics #ProgressiveEconomics #VoterRights #EconomicJustice

The Modern Worker Trap: How Capitalism Turns Employees Into Efficient ‘Antiseptic Slaves’

Workers produce everything, yet capital captures the rewards. This breakdown exposes the hidden system of “antiseptic slavery” shaping today’s economy and inequality.

Corporate Socialism Exposed 60 Minutes Reveals Who Really Takes the Risk

60 Minutes reveals how corporations rely on subsidies while avoiding risk—rare earths, shipbuilding, and more expose capitalism’s structural failure.

Exposed: How Debt Became the Tool the Wealthy Use to Drain Workers’ Income

The economy isn’t broken—it’s engineered. Learn how debt became the oligarchy’s most powerful tool.

Capitalism has a Math Problem: How Wealth Growth Devours the Middle Class

Anand Giridharadas reveals how the “Epstein class” protected power and privilege across parties while victims waited for justice.

How Republicans Blew Up the Debt and Put the Dollar—and America—at Risk

GOP tax cuts created deficits, enriched elites, and forced America to borrow from itself. Now the dollar’s global role is collapsing—and the world is adapting.

The Hidden Link Between EV, Tariffs, Wind Energy, Greenland, Venezuela, and Oil Imperialism

The fight over EVs and renewables exposes how resource extraction still drives U.S. economic and foreign policy.

Trump’s Economic Lies Exposed by Charts: Jobs Falling, Inflation Rising, Reality Ignored

Trump claims success, but charts show rising unemployment, shrinking manufacturing, and hidden tariff taxes.

Middle Class Power: The Truth About Who Really Builds America

Teachers, workers, and public servants power America. This video dismantles Wall Street mythology and calls on the middle class to assert its true value.

Richard Wolff, an American economist and professor emeritus at UMass Amherst, is known for his sharp critiques of economic inequality and his advocacy for worker cooperatives. Through his books, lectures, and public talks, he champions economic democracy and explores alternative economic models that empower workers and challenge the status quo.

#RichardWolff #Economics #EconomicInequality #WorkerCooperatives #EconomicDemocracy #AlternativeEconomy #SocialJustice #Capitalism #WealthInequality #CooperativeEconomy #ProgressiveEconomics #FairEconomy #SystemChange #changeoftheguard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFa4Lm_ZTyI

#ProgressiveEconomics
Reeves's budget is a shift towards social democracy, but sustainable growth is uncertain. Labour needs to secure public patience for a path full of bold moves, steadying hands, & maybe… a few mistakes. Can they? #BudgetAnalysis #FutureofLabour #PublicTrust #Budget2024 #Labour https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/01/reeves-budget-labour-revolution-public-trust

When President Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, the marginal tax rate for the highest income bracket was 70 percent, but that fell to just 28 percent by the time he left office. Middle-out policies, which combat inequality and strengthen the middle class through a progressive economic agenda, have the promise to bring about a new era of shared prosperity in our nation. #ProgressiveEconomics #Inequality #WealthGap https://www.americanprogress.org/article/trickle-down-economics-and-broken-promises/