随着人们走上街头对国际货币基金组织，政府腐败以及法西斯主义的蔓延表达不满，拉丁美洲各地发生了历史性的抗议活动。
With attention fixed on this week’s events in Bolivia, you would be excused for not realizing that much of the rest of the region has for weeks also been ablaze in the flames of protest. In Costa Rica, the neoliberal coalition government of Carlos Alverado attempted to force through a $1.75 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
美国的富人变得越来越富裕，而穷人则越来越穷，百万富翁和亿万富翁现在拥有所有家庭财富史无前例的79％。
Millionaires and billionaires hold a remarkable 79.2 percent of the United States’ household wealth. That is according to a newly released triennial study into consumer and household finances from the Federal Reserve. The report paints a picture of an unequal America, where a small minority of the rich control the vast majority of household wealth.
如果社会上最富有的百分之十的人继续像现在这样生活，那么即使所有其他排放量都降至零，世界的整个碳预算也将在2033年之前枯竭。
A new report published today by international charity Oxfam lays bare the massive disparities in carbon dioxide emissions between the world’s wealthy elite and the rest of society. Titled “Confronting Carbon Inequality,” the study found that over the previous 25 years, the globe’s richest one percent are responsible for 15 percent of all carbon
政策研究所的最新数据显示，尽管一场大流行使经济停滞了几个月，但美国的亿万富翁阶层却变得比以往任何时候都更加富有，自3月份全国范围内的封锁以来，他们的财富增加了近7,000亿美元。
For the first time in history, the 12 richest individuals in the United States collectively hold over $1 trillion in wealth. New figures from the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) show that, despite a pandemic that has stunted the economy for months, America’s billionaire class is becoming richer
正如哥伦比亚广播公司指出的那样，富裕的硅谷员工试图阻止当地无家可归者收容所的讽刺之处在于，湾区的无家可归现象正在崛起，这在很大程度上归功于硅谷本身。
SAN FRANCISCO -- Residents of San Francisco’s South Beach are organizing to stop a homeless shelter in their affluent neighborhood, having crowdfunded tens of thousands of dollars in a matter of days to fight their legal battle with authorities. A 2.3-acre vacant lot in the shadow of the Bay Bridge has been identified as a prime spot to add 200
处理严重经济衰退的新自由主义方法可能很快就会产生政治危机，让人回想起导致希特勒80年前崛起的债务危机。政治阶层似乎注意到：股市飙升和薪水萎缩所反映的严重不平等是不可持续的。
NEW YORK -- The revelation that the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard and Poor's stock index closed at historic highs this past Thursday afternoon reminded me of an early autumn afternoon a dozen years ago in a glorious San Francisco apartment high in the sky. The apartment, perched atop a rise in the city’s Russian Hill
