How Wealth Managers Undermine Society and What We Can Do About It
An expert explains how shadowy practitioners of financial trickery help facilitate widespread tax evasion — and undermine democratic government.
Blogging Our Great Divide
New developments on the inequality front? Our Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org editorial team tracks them here.
London Fire Fuels Movement to Tackle Inequality in Britain
Building on the momentum of the recent election, activists are demanding justice for Grenfell Tower fire victims as part of a broader agenda to narrow economic and racial divides.
Organizing to Take on Donald Trump — and Trumpism
From a veteran activist, advice for first-timers: We should feel privileged.
Honor Juneteenth by Closing the Racial Wealth Divide
Even over 150 years after slavery, black families still lag centuries behind whites in household wealth.
The Corporate Choice: Create Real Value or Grand Fortunes
General Electric, the iconic American corporation, is waving another incredibly lush goodbye to a retiring CEO.
The Growing Problem of Hidden Wealth
The more wealth the super rich pile up, new research details, the more taxes they maneuver to evade.
The Unpleasant Impact of a Most Unserious Budget
If you can get past the fuzzy math, the new Trump budget means certain pain for most families — and big tax cuts for our wealthiest few.
Fun at the Frontier
The world has a hot new explanation for inequality that’s warming the hearts of the deep pockets who’ve benefited the most from the inequality we already have.
A Capitalist Real-Life Fiction
A new book brings the page-turning excitement of a crime thriller to the moral quandary of modern finance.
Envisioning a Post-Trump Future
Alperovitz challenges us to think past today’s daily scandals to consider exactly what kind of society we want to live in.