How About a General Strike Against Dollar General?
Execs at massive ‘dollar store’ chains are making fortunes off America’s top-heavy distributions of income and wealth.
Blogging Our Great Divide
New developments on the inequality front? Our Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org editorial team tracks them here.
A Telling Tale of Two Press Lords
Rupert Murdoch made the world safe for grand fortune. E.W. Scripps had a better idea.
America’s Auto Workers: On Strike Against Inequality. Again.
UAW activists years ago helped usher in a vastly more equal society. Can history repeat?
The Tie That Truly Binds Grand Fortune and Great Talent
Our world’s richest are increasingly monopolizing the smarts of our smartest.
More than Half of America’s 20 Top Public Charities Are Donor-Advised Funds
The highest-earning DAF now takes in $11 billion more than the highest-earning working charity.
Which Nation Has Taxed the Rich the Most?
Britain and the United States once competed for that honor. Times have changed.
Wealthy People Working for Justice? Michael Gast’s Map of an Unprecedented Movement
Exploring the burgeoning movement to organize the rich for our common good.
The 100 Largest Low-Wage Employers Have Spent $341 Billion on Stock Buybacks Since 2020
A new report reveals how stock buybacks have inflated CEO paychecks and widened pay gaps at the 100 largest low-wage corporations.
Oligarchy Has Arrived. Congress Must Take Notice — and Act!
An innovative tax-the-rich proposal now before lawmakers would reverse the wealth concentration that’s suffocating our democracy
60 Years After the March on Washington, Black Economic Inequality Persists
Sixty years without substantially narrowing the racial wealth divide is a policy failure.