Honor Juneteenth by Closing the Racial Wealth Divide
Even over 150 years after slavery, black families still lag centuries behind whites in household wealth.
Blogging Our Great Divide
New developments on the inequality front? Our Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org editorial team tracks them here.
The Corporate Choice: Create Real Value or Grand Fortunes
General Electric, the iconic American corporation, is waving another incredibly lush goodbye to a retiring CEO.
The Growing Problem of Hidden Wealth
The more wealth the super rich pile up, new research details, the more taxes they maneuver to evade.
The Unpleasant Impact of a Most Unserious Budget
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.
Fun at the Frontier
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 Capitalist Real-Life Fiction
A new book brings the page-turning excitement of a crime thriller to the moral quandary of modern finance.
State Action on Hedge Fund Loophole
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.
Envisioning a Post-Trump Future
Alperovitz challenges us to think past today’s daily scandals to consider exactly what kind of society we want to live in.
Challenging Dynastic Wealth Tax Breaks
A beneficiary of family wealth speaks out against a D.C. City Council proposal to pay for estate tax cuts by shortchanging public services.
Walmart’s Amazing $237-Million Man
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.