The Super-Rich Are Gobbling Up Earth’s Future and Our Leaders Are Letting Them

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The Super-Rich Are Gobbling Up Earth’s Future and Our Leaders Are Letting Them
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Sam Pizzigati, veteran labor journalist and Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow, edits Inequality.org. His recent books include: The Case for a Maximum Wage (2018) and The Rich Don't Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970 (2012).

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“We live in times of major geopolitical, socioeconomic, and climate and environmental challenges and crises, which require urgent action,” the G20 nations solemnly declared. Added their official statement: “We recognize that inequality within and among countries is at the root of most global challenges that we face and is aggravated by them.”This noble G20 summit declaration, notes 350.

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