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Tagged with: Economic Inequality

Labor

Occupy San Francisco was a game-changer

Tim Paulson -
Ten years later, remembering the movement that gave us "We are the 99 percent" and put economic inequality on the national agenda.
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: The ballad of Fatty Arbuckle

Dennis Harvey -
The anniversary of Hollywood's biggest silent era scandal. Plus: The Card Counter, Blue Collar, 499, and a great socialism doc.
Business + Tech

Excess profits tax on billionaires could vaccinate the entire world

Tim Redmond -
New study shows just how much richer the rich got in the pandemic—and what could be done if we taxed some of that unearned wealth.
Movies

Screen Grabs: Stalin’s funeral, New Deal art, and a harrowing Mexican fable of unrest

Dennis Harvey -
Three new movies seem like history repeating. Plus, an invigorating Legacy Film Festival On Aging
Music

Local Listen: Mae Powell’s surprisingly poppy ‘F*ck I.C.E.’ and more

John-Paul Shiver -
Moses Herman Jacobs highlights the housing crisis, DJ Delon funks it up outdoors, and Xyla entrances
News + Politics

A Democratic president actually talks about taxing the very rich

Tim Redmond -
Thank Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street and other organizers and activists for forcing the Democratic Party to the left
News + Politics

US Senate committee takes on economic inequality

Tim Redmond -
It's a defining issue -- but the news media don't seem to be paying attention, and half the members didn't bother to show up.
News + Politics

Is the US finally talking about taxing the rich?

Tim Redmond -
In Congress, and in New York, progressive legislation is on the agenda. Still waiting for California.
The Agenda

Denmark, taxes, happiness, racism …

Tim Redmond -
... plus saving the SIP hotels, cracking down on serial permit scofflaws, and more problems with private prisons. That's The Agenda for Feb. 22-28
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Elders on the move, in love and crisis

Dennis Harvey -
Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci play a couple navigating dementia in 'Supernova'; 'Nomadland' shows Frances McDormand weathering poverty
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