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Mississippi: jailing poor people

dimanche 10 juin 2018 à 02:00

The Southern Poverty Law Center made the town of Corinth, Mississippi, stop jailing poor people over fines they could not pay.

However, towns and cities across the US engage in this cruelty. In many cases it is a byproduct of Republican tax-cutting. For plutocratists, squeezing money out of poor people is preferable to taxing rich people.

Dress code discrimination

dimanche 10 juin 2018 à 02:00

US school dress codes are often explicitly biased against blacks, but even when they aren't, they tend to be enforced in a biased way (like so many laws).

Selling favorable news coverage

dimanche 10 juin 2018 à 02:00

A former Tory official is now a corrupt newspaper editor, and has sold Google and Uber a promise of favorable news coverage.

School vouchers

dimanche 10 juin 2018 à 02:00

Public-funded school vouchers are supporting religiously biased "schools" that inculcate religion and bogus science.

Fee for seeing doctor in prison

dimanche 10 juin 2018 à 02:00

Many US prisons charge prisoners a small fee to see a doctor — but it can take a prisoner a month to make that small fee on prison wages.

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