scholarship American inequality is unequally distributed, and got lumpier after the Great Recession Cory Doctorow
class war Virginia is the most unequal state in the union, and is more unequal than at any time in (post-Reconstruction) history Cory Doctorow
class war The majority of US workers live in "employment monopsonies" where there is little or no competition for workers Cory Doctorow
class war Wells Fargo CEO promises to spend not one cent of the GOP tax gift on investment or wages Cory Doctorow
class war Trump's Department of Labor proposes rule that lets employers steal employees' tips Cory Doctorow
Business The final draft of the GOP tax plan transfers even more wealth to the 1%: now they get 83% Cory Doctorow
science fiction Ted Chiang: Elon Musk's fear of runaway AI is a projection of his repressed terror of runaway corporations Cory Doctorow
politics The Tea Party's baseless claims of IRS discrimination left the agency on life-support, unable to police dark money gushing through "charities" Cory Doctorow
Business Piketty and 100 researchers: inequality is getting worse, and will continue to worsen Cory Doctorow
corporatism Group behind voter ID, stand your ground, ag-gag, private prison, anti-muni-wifi, and killing Obamacare now planning rules for jailing pipeline protesters Cory Doctorow
trumpism Independent auditor: Trump has made it impossible for students defrauded by predatory diploma mills to get their loans cancelled Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Simklept: Kleptocrat is a mobile game that uses real-world financial crimes to simulate being a tax-dodging one percenter Cory Doctorow
videos Sanders, vindicated: Senior Democrats say the GOP's tax-plan has started a class war, and they're going to fight back on those terms Cory Doctorow
happy mutants A free sf anthology about space travel, inequality, equity and public policy: Kim Stanley Robinson, Madeline Ashby, Eileen Gun, Ramez Naam, Steven Barnes, Karl Schroeder and more! Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Treasure Islands: EU publishes a blacklist of 17 tax-havens and a long-list of runner-up tax avoidance jurisdictions Cory Doctorow
Business Guillotine watch: The executives who bankrupted Toys R Us this year want $16M-$32M in bonuses for their performance Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Morgan Stanley, with a long rapsheet for corporate crimes, says Jeremy Corbyn holding them to account would hurt them worse than the worst Brexit Cory Doctorow
law States suspend your driver's license over inability to pay court fines, costing you your job and any ability to repay Cory Doctorow
