How the CEO-Worker Pay Gap Deepens Income and Wealth Inequality
While working families are suffering under the pandemic, corporate boards have bent the rules to protect massive CEO paychecks.
Blogging Our Great Divide
New developments on the inequality front? Our Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org editorial team tracks them here.
Did America’s Greediest Corporation Just Become Greedier?
Recently added to the Walmart governing board: still another expert in enriching top execs at worker and taxpayer expense.
The Simple Rules of Wealth Inequality
The rich won’t be paying their fair share of taxes as long as our tax system speeds wealth’s concentration.
Billionaire Wealth Gains Could Pay for Two-Thirds of Covid Relief Bill
America’s wealthiest 657 billionaires stand $1.3 trillion richer than they were last March.
Biden’s Relief Package Is a Huge Step Forward for Workers
One of the largest anti-poverty programs ever passed will also save worker pensions throughout the country.
Frist Family Leads Pandemic Profiteer Parade in Health Sector
For-profit hospital billionaire owners see wealth increase by $8.1 billion since March 2020
Why the Amazon Worker Vote in Bessemer Means So Much
Unions don’t just raise worker wages. They help flatten grand private plutocratic fortunes.
Paid Sick and Family Leave Can’t Wait
For frontline workers, the financial strain caused by a lack of paid leave can be just as stressful as the virus itself.
Time for the Warren-Jayapal Wealth Tax
Billionaires have reaped tremendous gains during the pandemic. A wealth tax will slow the build-up of democracy-distorting concentrations of wealth and power.
Average Americans Pay Tax on Over Half Their Wealth. Shouldn’t Rich Americans?
Our current national confusion over wealth taxes serves only the wealthy.