Inequality.is Makes Plain What Inequality Is

Jane Yurechko ourfuture.org
On the website launched by the Economic Policy Institute, you can learn how income is actually distributed in the U.S. among the top 10 percent and the bottom 90 percent, see how your specific characteristics determine your wage, and see how it can be that regular workers are working more today but not reaping the rewards.

New Bank of America Whistle-Blower Emerges: More Customer Abuse Secrets

David Dayen Salon
According to reports from a new Bank of America whistle-blower, BoA is seeking to avoid providing required payments to homeowners to compensate for an initial round of illegal practices by selling off the servicing rights to fly-by-night organizations that specialize in abusing customers.

'Spouses for life': California's First Post-Prop-8 Wedding

On June 28, 2013 at San Francisco's City Hall, Kris Perry and Sandy Stier become the first same-sex couple in California to legally marry following a major Supreme Court decision earlier this week that effectively overturned California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage. The wedding was officiated by California's Attorney General Kamal Harris. More.

Friday Nite Videos -- June 28, 2013

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Texas lawmaker Wendy Davis filibusters an abortion bill. What happens when a single mother runs out of food stamps at the check-out line? The first same-sex couple in California to legally marry. An entire stadium full of people participate in performing the final movement of Beethoven's Ode to Joy. 'Heterosexuality as we know it will come to an end in 90 days.' Two young men, one Israeli and one Palestinian, discover they were switched at birth.

Jim Crow

Clay Bennett amuniversal.com