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Marie Antoinette traveled over two centuries into the future to express solidarity with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross at a House hearing Thursday.

“Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and several other members of Trump World had #LetThemEatCake moments during the government shutdown,” said progressive advocacy group American Family Voices in a tweet, referencing the famous quote attributed to the 18th century French queen. “We decided they should meet their inspiration in person.”

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Read the full article at Common Dreams.

More than $300 million in funding for military construction projects in Hawaii could potentially be diverted to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. After declaring a national emergency, President Trump directed the Defense Department to identify projects from which funds could be repurposed.

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Read the full article at Hawaii Public Radio.

Rallying in support of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), under fire for comments about Israel and Jews, Muslim, left-wing Jewish and other figures said Wednesday the U.S. was undergoing a time of transition, with criticism of Israel no longer “taboo” or “political suicide” for members of Congress.

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Read the full article at CSN News.

The U.S. should increase taxes on the wealthy as the disparity between the rich and poor has reached extreme levels, investor Jeremy Grantham said Thursday.

“I arrived in 1964, and America was a fairly equal place with fairly rapid mobility between socioeconomic classes,” Grantham, an investor who manages more than $100 billion in assets at GMO and is famous for calling the last two market bubbles, told CNBC’s Wilfred Frost. “Now it’s worse than the U.K. I mean, who would’ve imagined that in 1964. We have one of the most unequal countries in the developed world.”

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Read the full article at CNBC.

Barack Obama didn’t break any new ground when, at last month’s national gathering of the “My Brother’s Keeper Alliance” in Oakland, California, he cracked jokes about the self-defeating qualities of a certain type of young black man. Addressing this hypothetical fellow directly, Obama ridiculed him for “wearing an 8-pound chain” and needing “eight women around you twerking” to prove his manhood. The theme—of poor black people undone by their own moral failings—was a major thoroughfare throughout his presidency, one that Obama traveled again and again when confronting black communities struggling under capitalism.

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Read the full article at In These Times.

US House Democrats have delayed a vote on a second resolution condemning anti-Semitism as politicians squabble over its wording, according to US media.

The resolution, which was slated for a Wednesday vote, was initially drafted as an indirect rebuke of Ilhan Omar, one of the first Muslim congresswomen in the United States.

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Read the full article at al Jazeera.

The gap between the rich and the poor in America has widened — and dynastic wealth, which has been bemoaned by Warren Buffett, may be a factor.

Dynastic wealth occurs when families pass money down from one generation to the next. It’s a cyclic process: Each generation can grow the previous generation’s money and leave it to the next generation, which then continues to grow it.

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Read the full article at Business Insider.

In America capitalism generates a lot of wealth, but it’s landing in the hands of a very, very few. Microsoft co-founder Gates, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett collectively have more wealth than the 160 million poorest Americans, according to a 2017 Institute for Policy Studies report. And people may just be sick of it.

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Read the full article at CNBC.

It’s the financial riddle of the 30-something years. How does anyone, even those with a stable, upwardly mobile job, let alone a family, afford to live in places like New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco or Washington, D. C.?

The answer: Many are bankrolled, to varying degrees, by their parents.

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Read the full article at New York Times.

African-American women are coming together to rise above gender inequality. Women of color represented the majority of new women elected to Congress in the 2018 midterm elections, and state and local elections followed a similar trend. More minority women are also climbing the corporate ranks as companies increasingly realize that a diverse workforce results in greater success. Women of color are recognized in Hollywood now more than ever before.

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Read the full article at NBC News.

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