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Thu Jun 25, 2020, 05:30 PM Jun 2020

Billionaires make bank in pandemic while homelessness spikes in LA - Richard Wolff

"Six hundred billionaire's became [$434 billion] wealthier. 66,000 people live on the streets, in a shelter, or in their cars [in LA, up 12.7% from last year]. What kind of a society does this? If ever you needed me to summarize a program by saying "we can do better than capitalism" this list of statistics should have done it."



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