Financial Industry Split on Speculation Tax
As EU negotiators struggle to reach the finish line on a financial transaction tax agreement, 52 industry professionals issue a joint statement in support.
Blogging Our Great Divide
New developments on the inequality front? Our Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org editorial team tracks them here.
When Sears Shared
America’s largest retailer spread the wealth around back in the 1950s and prospered. Today’s Sears is concentrating wealth — and crashing.
The Seattle Minimum Wage Study Is Utter B.S.
A misleading study on Seattle implies raising the minimum wage hurts workers. A massive body of research implies otherwise.
This is What Reparations Could Actually Look Like in America
A tax on concentrated wealth would have a positive impact on the economy for everyone.
Donald Trump’s Three-Step Plan to Dupe the Public on Tax Cuts
The latest efforts to sell the public on the Trump tax-cut plan offer a master class in deception and deceit with dire consequences, for Trump's non-wealthy supporters.
A Fourth of July Imperative: Overcoming the ‘Politics of Deference’
In 1776, unlike today, we actually had a sizeable number of rich people who challenged the notion that the rich have a natural right to rule.
What Happened to America’s Wealth? The Rich Hid It.
We have trillions sitting about that could be used to fix our roads and schools. The wealthy just don’t want you to know where those trillions sit.
How Wealth Managers Undermine Society and What We Can Do About It
An expert explains how shadowy practitioners of financial trickery help facilitate widespread tax evasion — and undermine democratic government.
London Fire Fuels Movement to Tackle Inequality in Britain
Building on the momentum of the recent election, activists are demanding justice for Grenfell Tower fire victims as part of a broader agenda to narrow economic and racial divides.
Organizing to Take on Donald Trump — and Trumpism
From a veteran activist, advice for first-timers: We should feel privileged.