Annual Reports
…157,783 Total Liabilities $23,172 Annual Report 2007-2008: profit and loss Income $280,372 Expenses $231,173 Net Income $49,199 Balance Sheet Overview June 30, 2008 Total Assets $108,629 Total Liabilities $17,345 Annual Report 2006-2007: Fiscal Year 2006-2007 profit and loss Income $251,716 Expenses $239,395 Net Income $12,427 Balance Sheet Overview June 30, 2007 Total Assets $60,331 Total Liabilities $18,247 Total Equity $42,084 Annual Report 2…
Taxes are for Suckers
…y’re doing offshore. They’re playing all kinds of games to reduce their US income tax to ridiculously low levels. The issue of companies shifting income ultimately to tax havens should really be at the top of the agenda right now. Somewhere on the order of $70 billion a year are lost to the US treasury, just from offshore tax shelters. That was Jeffrey winters professor of political economy at Northwest University. We hear a lot about tax havens i…
Wealth Inequity and Universal Basic Income
…cy Studies, traces the history of the wealth gap in his work. Is Universal Basic Income, or UBI, an answer to the wealth gap, and to poverty? Or is it the tech community’s neoliberal dream? For this answer we hear from the producers from Upstream. Special thanks to Upstream Podcast: Upstreampodcast.org. Like this program? Please show us the love. Click here and support our non-profit journalism. Thanks! Featuring: Chuck Collins, Director of the Pr…
Wealth Inequity and Universal Basic Income
…cy Studies, traces the history of the wealth gap in his work. Is Universal Basic Income, or UBI, an answer to the wealth gap, and to poverty? Or is it the tech community’s neoliberal dream? For this answer we hear from the producers from Upstream. Special thanks to Upstream Podcast. Like this program? Please show us the love. Click here and support our non-profit journalism. Thanks! Featuring: Chuck Collins – Director of the Program On Inequality…
Who Controls Black Women’s Bodies?
…that poor women had an unintended pregnancy rate five times that of higher income women and an unintended birth rate six times as high as higher income women. What that tells us, just those statistics alone, women whose lives are less stable, because they’re younger, because they’re poorer, or because they’re less educated, have higher rates of unplanned pregnancies, unplanned births, and abortions. Kyung Jin Lee: Cohen says the rat…
The Response: Heatwaves and Energy Poverty in the Mediterranean
…oalition are to ensure that there are free grant-based renovations for low-income households across Europe. And also, that low-income households have access to renewable schemes. And one of the ways that this has to come forward, so that we can remedy the climate crisis, is by diverting subsidies from for instance, fossil gas boilers, which are seen as the current answer to energy poverty, which is very shortsighted towards more sustainable soluti…
Medical Apartheid and the COVID-19 vaccines
…ies. So, we see a clearly unfair distribution of the vaccines according to income level. Uh, high income countries, they have secured enough vaccine doses to vaccinate about 350% of their population while low-income countries they have only enough doses to vaccinate 3% of their population. Salima Hamirani: That’s a huge disparity, especially since, when the pandemic first hit activists were working to make sure the vaccines were accessible. Achal…
Medical Apartheid and the COVID-19 vaccines (ENCORE)
…ies. So, we see a clearly unfair distribution of the vaccines according to income level. Uh, high income countries, they have secured enough vaccine doses to vaccinate about 350% of their population while low-income countries they have only enough doses to vaccinate 3% of their population. Salima Hamirani: That’s a huge disparity, especially since, when the pandemic first hit activists were working to make sure the vaccines were accessible. Achal…
Essential: Gig Workers and COVID-19
…like a heavy tackle. It’s taking a lot of people a long time to get their income. JORGE – [00:00:20] You know, the numbers are not guaranteed. And furthermore, there’s a long wait to get it. JORGE – Uber is just one of those difficult things that make it very hard when applying for any kind of any kind of help because we are independent contractors. So maybe that’s lack of knowledge and I have to take accountability for that. But I also don’t fe…
Essential: Gig Workers and COVID-19 [ENCORE]
…like a heavy tackle. It’s taking a lot of people a long time to get their income. JORGE – [00:00:20] You know, the numbers are not guaranteed. And furthermore, there’s a long wait to get it. JORGE – Uber is just one of those difficult things that make it very hard when applying for any kind of any kind of help because we are independent contractors. So maybe that’s lack of knowledge and I have to take accountability for that. But I also don’t fe…
How to Occupy the Economy, According to Richard Wolff
…nited States long ago stopped being about a serious conversation about the basic system because this basic system, capitalism, is a taboo subject. All we have is cheerleading. If you go to the website of President Obama before he won the election last time, on the economics page, the first homepage quotation from President Obama, then candidate Obama had to do with the wonders of the private enterprise system in bringing us peace and prosperity, e…
Don’t Let Them See You Bleed: PERIOD
…oducts they could not afford from a friend. And period poverty impacts low-income women everywhere. Tina Leslie believes that the lack of menstrual education, combined with the challenges of poverty, create serious hardships for girls and women all around the world – hardships that are totally preventable. Tina founded Freedom 4 Girls, to provide maxi pads to women in Kenya. Volunteers hold workshops and show women how to make the pads. Tin…
Not Just Speed Traps: Alabama Community Fights Back Against For-profit Policing – A 70 Million Story (Encore)
…es for traffic stops in Alabama using traffic fines to generate government income? Has a storied history in Brookside. Things seemed to change with the arrival of its new police chief Mike Jones in 2018. Brookside was a one man police department. The council and mayor decided they wanted to have a so-called professional police department. So they hired Mike Jones, who essentially promised them he could build a department. But what they got was a p…
70 Million – Highway Robbery: How a Small Town Traffic Trap Became A Legal Black Hole
…d fees as an alternative tax structure to bring in revenue to pace pay for basic state functions. And bad actors like Brookside have been able to exploit that, to really shake people down. But fundamentally, that’s how our state is funded. Nelson says The fines and fees fund all kinds of things in Alabama. So I’m gonna give you an example from fiscal year 2017. The judicial system took in almost $90 million in fines, fees, and court costs. $14.2 m…
Women’s Desk
…Abortion Access On this program from the Women’s Desk, we look at how low-income women and young women are losing their access to abortion.[…] Above the Law? The U.S. and the International Criminal Court On this program, we take a look at U.S. government opposition to the ICC. And, the National Radio Project’s Women’s Desk examines what the establishment of the court could mean for victims of sexual violence in wartime.[…] Military Maneuvers:…
Environment Desk
…ollution in Richmond, California Richmond, California is one of the lowest-income communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s also one of the most toxic. On this edition, we’ll hear how community activists in this heavily polluted area are coming together to fight for[…] Dam Shame: Rivers and Resistance As we look for a solution to global energy problems and a way out of the climate crisis- some are turning to dams and hydroelectric power as…
The Utopian Dinner Table: How to Feed the World in 100 Years
…should give us pause, right? I mean, if we’re just trying to, uh, exercise basic agency, basic freedom to be able to eat just fresh fruits and vegetables, and a 20% of us can’t afford to do it. That doesn’t seem like freedom to me. Uh, and if you are trying to just feed your family well here in North America, uh, and you want to be able to afford to again to do it properly in ways that respect the workers, the respect to the soil that respect,…
The End of Student Debt: Free College and Debt Strikes
…er you’re on forbearance or a deferment or if you’re on one of the various income driven repayment plans where because of your income and your family size and some other factors, your monthly payment has already been lowered to zero dollars a month. Those are all completely safe ways to join the strike. At the current moment, most federal student loans have been suspended through October 1st, and they might extend that suspension even further, w…
Beyond Gay Marriage (Encore)
…this whole gay marriage thing. He was pressured by the gay marriage folks basically to do something. He didn’t respond to them. So the way I understand it, his people, basically– the people surrounding him, who were a reasonable number of white, gay men, A-gays, obviously said to him, Gavin, you lost the Castro because your opponent won the Castro. Now, it would be interesting if you did something to win back the Castro and win back the gay vote…
Beyond Gay Marriage
…this whole gay marriage thing. He was pressured by the gay marriage folks basically to do something. He didn’t respond to them. So the way I understand it, his people, basically– the people surrounding him, who were a reasonable number of white, gay men, A-gays, obviously said to him, Gavin, you lost the Castro because your opponent won the Castro. Now, it would be interesting if you did something to win back the Castro and win back the gay vote…
