Pandemic Recovery Must Include Care Worker Protections
‘Seeing as we are the ones who are supposed to be taking care of people, why is it that we are the least cared about?’
Blogging Our Great Divide
New developments on the inequality front? Our Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org editorial team tracks them here.
The Simple Fix Our Tax Code So Urgently Needs: Sunshine!
Income tax disclosure ought to be the law of the land, not a criminal offense.
Living Ever Larger in the Lap of Luxury
The rich have become so rich that just selling to the rich can make you the world’s richest person.
Tax Foundation Sounds the Alarm — Over the Plight of Totally Mythical Taxpayers
No actual taxpayers are going to face anything remotely close to the tax rate critics of the Biden tax plan are claiming.
To Grow Our Economic Pie, Cut More Equal Slices!
Redistributing wealth downward, new calculations suggest, can make societies richer.
Poor People’s Campaign and House Progressives Call for a ‘Third Reconstruction’
A new Congressional resolution lays out a comprehensive vision for eradicating poverty and tackling racial and economic inequality.
Family Offices: Trillion Dollar Pools of Unregulated Capital You Haven’t Heard About
With the collapse of Archegos Capital, family offices — a main tool of the wealth defense industry — are in the headlines.
The Justice McDonald’s Workers Seek Workers at Spain’s Mondragón Have Found
We don’t have to organize our economy around enterprises that pay CEOs over 1,000 times what workers make.
While Professing BLM Support, Wall Street Banks Reject Racial Equity Audits
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is urging shareholders to vote against a proposed review of the impact of bank policies and practices on racial inequality.
Can We Get a Vaccine for the Greed Pandemic?
The avarice virus escaped decades ago from corporate boardrooms. We can beat it.