Affluent Populists?
Inequality is front and center for Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump's candidacies. Do their messages turn-off rich voters?
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Taking Tax Fairness Battle to the States
The Patriot Millionaires network has brought the drive to close one of Wall Street’s most lucrative tax loopholes to the New York statehouse. The bill these affluent activists are backing...
Remembering Martin Sabo
A champion of fairness, Representative Martin Sabo fought for working people to reduce inequality. We're proud to have worked alongside him.
The Real Impact of Economic Despair
A new report shows rising inequality linked to rising high school dropout rates — and upends the view that poverty ‘incentivizes’ the working class. More and more, I am reminded...
More CEO Pension Madness
The Tennessee Valley Authority CEO who’s pressing for worker pension cuts has amassed a retirement fortune that will deliver him over $23,000 a month for his three years of service.
Wall Street Bonuses: Still Sky-High
We could raise wages for millions of workers to $15 an hour, using the bonus money from Wall Street, and still have plenty of money leftover. Wall Street bonuses dipped...
Income Segregation and Familiarity
Rising income segregation hinders our capacity for cross-class empathy and challenges our ability to close the gap.
The Big Rich: 7 Things You Didn’t Know
New data provides a glimpse into the lives of the richest of America’s rich, how the 400 highest earners make their money and pay their taxes.
Hillary vs. Bernie vs. the 1 Percent
The two Democratic Party White House hopefuls agree on cutting back the after-tax incomes of America’s rich. They disagree significantly on how much. The deep pockets that make up America’s...
Race, Wealth, and the Election
The Trump phenomenon looks a lot less surprising if you consider our nation’s history of white supremacy and racial inequality. Most professional pundits have been stumped by the 2016 presidential primaries....
Paying for Low Wage Pollution
Economic justice activists are championing laws that shift the costs of toxic poverty wages from communities to corporations. Imagine if a corporation set up shop in your community and immediately...
A Business Case for a Wealth Tax
Giving preferential tax treatment to a privileged class of citizens violates the principles of both democracy and capitalism. An annual levy on wealth over $250,000 could begin returning us to...