June 15, 2020A Labor Department letter could help Trump’s private equity donors fleece 100 million workers. The letter follows a $3 million super PAC donation from a Wall Street titan pushing for the change.
June 4, 2020In April 2020 we reported on the release of the report "Wealth Windfalls, Tumbling Taxes, and Pandemic Profiteers” from Institute for Policy Studies. That study showed that between January 1, 2020 and April 10, 2020, 34 of the nation’s wealthiest 170 billionaires saw their wealth increase by tens of millions of dollars. Now, in an update to that report, the Institute for Policy Studies has released new figures that show that during the pandemic — while unemployment ...
November 14, 2017It’s time to “strike back” against the undemocratic and unequal state of our own country and the Western world.
September 18, 2017A system that allows the wealthy to pass on their amassed fortunes to their heirs tax-free creates a self-perpetuating aristocracy that is antithetical to democracy.
June 13, 2017While Americans fixate on Trump, the super-rich are absconding with our wealth, and the plague of inequality continues to grow.
December 3, 2015Think we don't have a problem with economic inequality? A new report finds that the wealthiest 20 individuals in the United States today hold more wealth than the bottom half of the US population combined.
December 3, 2015Think we don't have a problem with economic inequality? A new report finds that the wealthiest 20 individuals in the United States today hold more wealth than the bottom half of the US population combined.
October 29, 2015It's the result of "rules intentionally tipped to reward those already on the highest rungs of the ladder.”
October 9, 2015A first-of-its-kind analysis by ProPublica shows that the suits are far more common in black communities than white ones.
April 18, 2015In this 2003 clip from NOW, two millionaires explain why they oppose a Republican campaign to eliminate the so-called "death tax."
