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'A Dangerous Idea': Public School Advocates Denounce Cuomo-Gates Plan Seizing on Pandemic to 'Reimagine' New York's Education System

WATCH: Viral Animated Video Shows How Just a Fraction of Bill Gates's $110 Billion Could Pay to Replace Flint's Water Pipes

Julia Conley, staff writer

"You'd have to save more than a $100,000 per year for a MILLION years to get there. So where's that wealth tax?"

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Taxing Bill Gates $100 Billion, Counters Bernie Sanders, Could End Homelessness and Microsoft Founder 'Would Still Be a Multibillionaire'

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Bill Gates, billionaire, speaks onstage at 2019 New York Times Dealbook on November 06, 2019 in New York City.

The message, said the 2020 candidate, is that "the billionaire class cannot...

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Gates Foundation Award for Indian PM and 'Despot-in-the-Making' Narendra Modi Draws Anger From Rights Advocates

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends a conference in Russia in 2017.

"Are Trump and Bolsonaro next?"

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A man salvages debris

Urgently Investing $1.8 Trillion to #AdaptOurWorld and Avert 'Climate Apartheid' Could Yield $7.1 Trillion in Benefits, Analysis Shows

Despite Promises of ACA, Study Shows Two-Thirds of Personal Bankruptcies Still Caused by Illness and Medical Bills

Anthropologist Debunks Bill Gates' BS Narrative That Free-Market Capitalism Has Solved Crisis of Global Poverty

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

Sanders' "For the 99.8% Act" Applauded for Targeting "Tyranny of Plutocracy"

Putting Tax Rates and Billionaire 'Excess' in Moral Terms, Ocasio-Cortez Asks 'What Kind of Society Do We Want to Live In?'

For Sale: Congress

New Research Exposes "Stealth Politics" of America's 100 Richest Billionaires

As Handful of Billionaire Families Grab Nation's Wealth for Themselves, Report Details How Dynasties Rig US Economy

With Bold Message of Economic Justice, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez Rallies Draw Thousands in Kansas

How Billionaires Are Backing Charter School Push: AP

Saudi Arabia's crown prince Mohammed bin Salman met with U.S. Defense Secretary James "Mad Dog" Mattis on March 22, 2018.

Saudi Crown Prince—'Socially Acceptable War Criminal'—Enjoys US Tour Hosted by America's Elite

As Wealthiest Amass $1 Trillion in 2017, Calls for a 'Strike Back' Against Oligarchy

Trump's New Plan: Govt as Company, Citizens as Customers, Kushner as CEO

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Lots of Copies Make Stuff Safe: Saving Trump's Bigly Dumb Words

Little Donny is busy. Tuesday he fired Comey - a brazen move dubbed a purge, a coup and "the most NIXON WATERGATE DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS thing since whatever Trump did yesterday." Monday, on the off chance he ever said anything stupid, his minions deleted all press releases before Jan 1. Enter the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, which, facing a regime not so fond of free speech, had wisely backed them all up. Because the Internet never forgets.

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Institute for Policy Studies

The Wealth of Just 12 US Billionaires Now Totals Over One Trillion Dollars

Institute for Policy Studies

When Mega-Donors Dominate Charitable Giving, Democracy Pays the Price

Physicians for a National Health Program

New Medical Bankruptcy Study: Two-Thirds of Filers Cite Illness and Medical Bills as Contributors to Financial Ruin

Institute for Policy Studies

New Report Exposes Extreme Concentration of Wealth

Patriotic Millionaires

Patriotic Millionaires Call On Congress To Preserve The Estate Tax

U.S. Right to Know

Why is the Gates Foundation Funding a GMO Propaganda Campaign at Cornell?

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Vandana Shiva

Bill Gates' Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life

Vandana Shiva

The Path Beyond Extinction and Escape: Return to Earth, Regenerate and Share

Shailly Gupta Barnes

Even Now, Our Leaders Are Still Putting Their Faith in the Rich

Stan Karp

Getting a Covid-19 Education: From Race to the Top to a Plunge to the Bottom

Sarah Lahm

Billionaires Are the Biggest Threat to Public Schools

Paul Buchheit

No, We're Not All in This Together. How the Super-Rich Are Cheating America.

David A. Love

Why Obama Is Just Plain Wrong About Democrats Moving 'Too Far Left'

Negin Owliaei

Time for a Billionaire Ban

Million Belay, Timothy A. Wise

The Battle for the Future of Food in Africa

Steven Singer

Inside Bill Gates’ Hubris: Propaganda to Make America Neoliberal Again