The US refuses to shut down the reactors that are identical to those that failed disastrously at Fukushima.

Paying workers by check forces low-income households to lose $3000 a year to paycheck lenders and such like.

If you were a low-wage worker 70 years ago, you didn't have to pay a substantial part of your wages just to receive the pay owed to you. You got it in cash.

This is one way our economy is structured to crush the poor. Others include the practice of fining poor people for being jailed when they can't pay a fee, and the fact that poor people have access only to expensive food stores.

US gun laws permitting people to carry guns are only for whites. If you're black and you carry a gun, you are likely to get attacked even if you don't threaten anyone.

The Republican ruling Maine kicked 6000 people off food stamps because they are supposed to be working, though there are no jobs.

Senator Joni Ernst grew up poor and her family depended on government aid. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of it.

Now she ungratefully campaigns to deny the aid to poor families today.