Average Americans Pay Tax on Over Half Their Wealth. Shouldn’t Rich Americans?
Our current national confusion over wealth taxes serves only the wealthy.
Blogging Our Great Divide
New developments on the inequality front? Our Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org editorial team tracks them here.
Updates: Billionaire Wealth, U.S. Job Losses and Pandemic Profiteers
Check back for our regular updates on U.S. unemployment and billionaire wealth during the pandemic emergency.
Danny Glover: Why I’m in Alabama with Amazon Workers
The Hollywood actor is mobilizing support for warehouse workers who are making their mark on the long history of southern organizing.
Caregivers Need Care Too
A new documentary exposes the need for a federal lifeline for child care providers and working mothers.
Black Families Have a Major Stake in the Future of the Postal Service
USPS is a vital source of decent jobs for Black workers. It could also narrow the racial wealth divide by expanding financial services.
Five Painful Charts on Covid and Black America
This Black History Month, hard data reveal how the pandemic has widened racial divides.
The ‘Pre-Existing Condition’ That Doomed the U.S. Covid Response?
The answer from a blue-ribbon medical commission on the Trump years: decades of rising inequality.
The Pandemic is Sparking a Wave of Union Drives on College Campuses
In Arizona, two universities are spearheading an effort to unionize the entire state’s higher education workforce.