Blogging Our Great Divide

The more wealth the super rich pile up, new research details, the more taxes they maneuver to evade.

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.

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 new book brings the page-turning excitement of a crime thriller to the moral quandary of modern finance.

The Illinois state senate is the first legislative body to pass a bill to close a tax loophole that allows billionaire hedge fund managers to pay a lower tax rate than many teachers and firefighters.

Alperovitz challenges us to think past today’s daily scandals to consider exactly what kind of society we want to live in.

A beneficiary of family wealth speaks out against a D.C. City Council proposal to pay for estate tax cuts by shortchanging public services.

American taxpayers are subsidizing the windfalls that go to execs at low-wage employers like Walmart. Here’s a promising idea that could help reverse the subsidizing.

But health care costs, not corporate taxes, are the real drain on the U.S. economy.

The Great Recession, a new study shows, has driven the sharpest decline in reported happiness since researchers started collecting consistent data.