The Worst Part of Trump Paying Zero Taxes? It’s Probably Entirely Legal
The tax code has one set of rules for the super-rich and another for everyone else. A cottage industry exists to help them avoid taxes.
Blogging Our Great Divide
New developments on the inequality front? Our Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org editorial team tracks them here.
For Laid-off Workers, Trump’s Lies About Trade and Jobs Are Hard to Swallow
We need a fresh approach to trade that lifts up workers everywhere — not the CEOs who pit workers and communities against each other for their own personal gain.
Can You Imagine Ivanka Trump Consulting for a Pizza Parlor?
At tax time in a plutocratic America, anything goes for a family like the Trumps.
Inequality and Covid-19 in 13 Charts
A new data visualization series illustrates how the pandemic and flawed policy responses have widened long-standing economic, racial, and gender divides.
Let’s Start Debating What Dooms Democracy: Concentrated Wealth
Why we need to shove inequality onto America’s political center stage
FinCen Files Shine Spotlight on Suspicious Bank Transfers
The reporters behind the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers have more to share. We should pay attention.
Remembering Bill Gates Sr.
He believed the estate tax was an “economic opportunity recycling program.”
Remembering Ike, Our Unexpected Egalitarian
Former president Dwight Eisenhower deserves his new memorial. We deserve the greater economic equality he worked to help achieve.
Why Don’t People Call You a Genius? You Don’t Have a Billion Dollars.
The latest Forbes 400 can help us see why you don’t need a great intellect to become insanely wealthy.
Town Hall Events to Spotlight Need to Stop the Warehousing of Charitable Dollars
How we can unlock billions for essential pandemic relief.