Two Sides, Same Coin: Suppressing Votes, Cutting Rich People’s Taxes
State lawmakers are moving hard and fast to keep their wealthy backers wealthy.
Blogging Our Great Divide
New developments on the inequality front? Our Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org editorial team tracks them here.
Care Workers Are Not Giving up on Build Back Better
Over 35,000 people joined a recent telephone town hall to kick off a six-week campaign to protect investments in the care economy.
Report: Taxing the World’s Richest Would Raise US $2.52 Trillion a Year
A new joint report from Fight Inequality Alliance, Institute for Policy Studies, Oxfam, and Patriotic Millionaires details what can be funded by simply taxing the rich.
Student Debt Cancellation Is a Racial Justice Issue
Presidential executive action to cancel up to $50,000 in student debts would increase Black wealth by 40 percent.
College Football Coaches Making $25,000 a Day? Let’s Sideline This Lunacy!
The gridiron game has a penalty for illegal holding. We need one for hoarding.
Worshiping Markets, Genuflecting to Grand Fortune
Today’s ‘utopians’ have reserved heaven on Earth for the richest among us.
A Perfect Storm Has Elon Musk Paying $11 Billion in Tax
But our only quarter-trillionaire is still not paying anything close to his fair tax share.
Rev. Barber: ‘Our Deadline is Victory’
The Poor People’s Campaign and progressive members of Congress vow to continue the fight for the Build Back Better Act.
Tornados Can Kill. So Can Amazon’s Business Model.
How long will we tolerate the corporate executive ‘risk taking’ that puts only workers at real risk?
The Year in Inequality in 10 Charts
Our economic and racial divides grew even wider in 2021, but there are signs of hope for a more equitable future.