Cable TV Ignores Inequality; Here’s How to Get Around It
More than 1.7 million viewers tuned in to Bernie Sanders' inequality town hall streamed on Facebook Live, with tens of thousands more watching it later.
Blogging Our Great Divide
New developments on the inequality front? Our Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org editorial team tracks them here.
A Bigger Welcome Mat for America’s Tax Evaders
The GOP tax cut enacted in December and the just-passed federal budget give would-be affluent tax cheats both motive and plenty of opportunity.
The Mosquito Gap
How poverty, climate change, and bad policy put poor people at greater risk from pest-borne diseases.
DC Joins Seven States with Campaigns to Close Carried Interest Loophole
President Trump’s failure to fulfill a campaign promise to axe the controversial tax benefit for hedge fund and private equity fund managers has sparked action at the state level.
Tipped Workers Win with Spending Bill
A provision nestled deep in the spending bill prevents employers from taking the tips their employees earn.
Getting Granular on America’s Income Distribution
A Congressional Budget Office report once again reveals a rich outpacing — by a wide margin — everyone else.
A Movement is Building to Crack Down on Firms that Don’t Share the Wealth
Employees of at least five U.S. corporations would have to work more than a millennium to catch up with their top bosses.
Eleven ‘Small’ Banks that Would Gain from the Senate Banking Bill Sport Hefty Pay Gaps
Supporters of a Senate-approved deregulation bill claim they’re helping ‘community’ banks. But community banks don’t have CEOs making 146 times their worker pay.
To Save Humanity, We Could Fight Inequality. Or We Could Go Bar-Hopping on Mars.
Why are we letting our tax dollars bankroll a billionaire’s interplanetary goofiness?
Business Leaders Agree: Inequality Hurts The Bottom Line
A growing number of corporate leaders say it's time to push for serious public policy to halt the widening of our economic divide.