Paul Buchheit

Paul Buchheit is an advocate for social and economic justice, and the author of numerous papers on economic inequality and cognitive science. He was recently named one of 300 Living Peace and Justice Leaders and Models. He is the author of "American Wars: Illusions and Realities" (2008) and "Disposable Americans: Extreme Capitalism and the Case for a Guaranteed Income" (2017). Contact email: paul (at) youdeservefacts.org.
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Views Monday, March 22, 2021 The Boundless Advantages of the Welfare State—for the Rich President Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan is a positive step forward in the battle for economic and social justice. But not a single Congressional Republican voted for it. The unsubstantiated claim of Republican senators and conservative groups is that it establishes a "welfare state" that... Read more |
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Views Monday, February 22, 2021 2021 Update: Half of America In or Near Poverty Poverty, as defined by the World Bank , is a "pronounced deprivation in well-being." This describes the millions of Americans who are unable to pay for medical treatment; who suffer the stress of delinquent rent and mortgage payments; who see a steady decline of jobs that pay enough to support a... Read more |
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Views Monday, February 08, 2021 The Year of Cheating the Poor An insidious side of American capitalism has been highlighted by the pandemic. Millions of wealthy Americans have made passive stock market gains while millions of income-dependent Americans have lost their jobs and their livelihoods, and disproportionately their lives. If ever there was a time to... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 14, 2020 How Right-Wing Conservatives Have Laid Waste to America for 50 Years What is a conservative? We've seen a lot of them in 2020, refusing to respect the needs of society. The Heritage Foundation says : "Foremost among [conservatism's] transcendent values is the individual’s use of his God-given free will, whence derives his right to be free from the restrictions of... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 30, 2020 Inequality Gone Viral: The Obscene Numbers In a distressing analogy to the relentless surge of Covid-19, which has disproportionately impacted low-income communities and people of color, there has been an unstoppable transfer of wealth from desperate Americans to the people who already had most of our nation's financial assets. While the... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 21, 2020 How Hypocrites in High Places Have Contributed to the Riots in the Streets A perception exists among much of White America that young Black men would rather loot a store than work a job. This perception serves a lot of wealthy people well, deflecting attention away from their own failures to support the needs of society. But it’s a dangerously twisted perception. People... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 31, 2020 How Big Corporations are Draining the Life out of a Sick America When Dr. Jonas Salk was asked about a patent on his polio vaccine in 1955, he said, "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" When Gilead Sciences recently developed an anti-Covid drug for about $12 per treatment, they set the price at $3,200. As Republicans and business leaders decry the... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 17, 2020 What to Know When Someone Blames Black People for All the Riots It's easy for lazy thinkers to gloss over the deep-seated reasons for the anger and violence of downtrodden people. Recent lootings of upscale shops on Chicago's Magnificent Mile brought out waves of disgust for the 'thugs' who were said to care little for human values. But an honest review of the... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 03, 2020 Comparing Poverty in India and America May Surprise You The Covid-19 pandemic threatens to impoverish millions of people around the world, in both developing and advanced countries. But many Americans refuse to allow their nation to be compared to a developing country . Their poverty definitions are simplistic, based on globally calculated "dollars per... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 13, 2020 Foreshadowing the Year 2021: Half of America Facing Poverty There is something perverse about an economic system in which the stock market keeps climbing while people are dying. And in which 20 individuals can own as much wealth as the entire bottom half of the population. For the great majority of Americans without a share of the stock market, and for... Read more |