Authors: Sarah Anderson, Reyanna James, et al

Date Published: November 9, 2025

This assessment of the G20 record is a collaboration between the Institute for Policy Studies and our international partners: New Economics Foundation (UK), the Institute for Economic Justice (South Africa), Transforma (Brazil), and the Centre for Economic and Social Rights (global).

The report finds that at times the G20 has taken decisive action to address financial market crises. But the G20 has consistently failed to address the systemic inequities driving debt burdens, ecological collapse, and widening economic insecurity.

Author: Sarah Anderson

Date Published: August 21, 2025

This report takes an in-depth look at the 100 S&P 500 corporations with the lowest median worker pay, a group we have dubbed the “Low-Wage 100.” For each of these companies, we analyze CEO and worker pay trends since 2019. We also compare, for the past six years, what these companies have spent on stock buybacks to pump up short-term share prices with what they have invested in long-term capital improvements.

The report’s overall finding: At a time when many American workers are struggling with high costs for groceries and housing, the nation’s largest low-wage employers are fixated on making their overpaid CEOs even richer.

Authors: Chuck Collins, Bella DeVaan, Helen Flannery, Dan Petegorsky

Date Published: July 30, 2025

Three quarters of the original U.S. Giving Pledgers who are still alive remain billionaires today, and they have collectively gotten far wealthier since they signed, while just 8 of 22 deceased Pledgers fulfilled their pledges. What’s more, most of these contributions have gone to private foundations or donor-advised funds (DAFs), which can warehouse wealth for years without paying it out to working charities.

On the cusp of the Great Wealth Transfer to the next generation and a massive tax cut for the wealthiest Americans under the GOP’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” our nation is about to see even more accretions of philanthropic power in dynastic foundations.

Author: Omar Ocampo

Date Published: April 28, 2025.

Progressive taxation and a wealth tax on the ultrarich are both effective policy tools that can help reverse inequality and ensure that communities have the health care, schools, and infrastructure they need to thrive. New data produced and analyzed by the Institute for Policy Studies and the State Revenue Alliance show that Massachusetts and Washington State have seen tremendous growth in the number of people with more than $1 million in total wealth since raising taxes on higher earners. The revenue generated from these tax payments exceeded expectations and is helping fund essential programs that expand economic opportunity for all.

Author: Sarah Anderson

Date Published: April 24, 2025

Throughout Amazon’s history, corporate tax advantages have been essential to the company’s rapid growth and increasing market dominance, as well as the exploding wealth of the e-commerce giant’s top executives. This report documents the additional ways that Amazon and its executives unfairly benefit from a rigged federal tax system that has long prioritized large corporations and wealthy executives over regular people.

The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), passed by congressional Republicans and signed by President Trump, only accelerated the concentration of economic and political power among the ultra-rich, while leaving ordinary working people far behind.

Authors: Sarah Anderson

Date Published: April 15, 2025

Privatization of the U.S. Postal Service would have wide-ranging effects on customers, employees, businesses, and our broader economy. This report focuses primarily on one nearly certain result: a dramatic increase in parcel delivery prices.

Unlike the for-profit carriers, the Postal Service has a universal service obligation. As outlined in multiple statutes, this requires USPS to provide affordable deliveries to all Americans, regardless of where they live or work. A recent Wells Fargo analysis indicates that USPS parcel pricing was approximately 25 percent to 60 percent below FedEx and UPS prices, depending on product type, in the fourth quarter of 2024.

Without competition from this public service, for-profit firms would jack up delivery fees on as many customers as possible. Who would be hit hardest? Most likely those who live or work in ZIP codes where private carriers already impose surcharges because deliveries to these addresses are less profitable.

Authors: Chuck Collins, Bella DeVaan, Helen Flannery, and Dan Petegorsky

Date Published: April 7, 2025

Thirty years ago, donor-advised funds (or DAFs) were relatively obscure giving vehicles housed in a small set of community foundations. Today, they’re central players in U.S. charitable giving — and have rocketed to dominance.

DAFs now take in a sixth of all individual giving each year. And nine of the top 20 recipients of charitable gifts in the country — including the top three — are DAF sponsors. Total DAF assets have grown 67 percent over the past four years, from $152 billion in 2020 to $254 billion in 2023.

Our Charity Reform Initiative’s first annual Independent Report on DAFs demystifies donor-advised funds and their impacts on charitable giving, fair taxation, and our democracy itself.

Authors: Chuck Collins, Bella DeVaan, and Helen Flannery

Date Published: December 3, 2024

Philanthropy in America — the transfer of wealth out of private hands, ostensibly to non-profit organizations working for public benefit — is being captured by Wall Street’s wealth defense industry.

The country’s biggest philanthropists become wealthier every day from the appreciating value of their stockholdings and unrealized assets. Most of today’s mega-rich Americans live off the “buy, borrow, die” philosophy, skimming cash off their pools of wealth and using lines of credit to avoid incurring taxable income. And their philanthropic practices mirror their tactics to accrue, preserve, and defend their wealth.

Authors: Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo, Amee Chew

Date Published: October 21, 2024

Across the United States, communities are facing an acute housing affordability crisis. Rents and homelessness are rising while home ownership feels increasingly out of reach for millions.

What’s driving that crisis? In a word, inequality. Increased corporate control over our housing market — by billionaire investors and their for-profit entities — are driving these trends and placing significant barriers to the preservation and creation of permanently affordable housing.

Authors: Chuck Collins, Helen Flannery, Bella DeVaan

Date Published: September 18, 2024

For years, the fossil fuel industry has laundered false claims and junk science through allied think tanks and the media in an effort to slow public action on climate change. That scandal has attracted more and more attention over the years. But less well documented is how the funders of these efforts have used U.S. tax laws to make taxpayers subsidize this damaging misinformation.

As IPS and the Climate Accountability Research Project show in this report, wealthy donors are pouring billions into charities that spread disinformation about climate change. Many of these donors have a vested interest in ensuring the world’s ongoing dependence on fossil fuels. They funnel money into these charities directly or through private foundations and identity-masking donor-advised funds. And they receive enormous, publicly subsidized tax benefits for doing so.

Author: Sarah Anderson

Date published: August 29, 2024

Americans across the political spectrum share enormous common ground on at least one problem facing our nation: the extreme CEO-worker pay gaps at our country’s largest corporations.

This report finds that the 100 S&P 500 corporations with the lowest median wages — the Low-Wage 100 — last year paid their CEOs an average 538 times what they paid their most typical workers. The report also compares these low-wage corporations' spending on CEO pay-inflating stock buybacks versus their capital investments and contributions to worker retirement funds.

Author: Chris Mills Rodrigo

Date published: August 22, 2024

Two years after passage, tens of billions of CHIPS dollars are about to start flowing to corporations for domestic production of semiconductors. For many top tier workers in the industry, salaries are far above the U.S. average. But workers, observers, and lawmakers have raised several concerns about working conditions — including insufficient wages, , taxing schedules, and exposure to toxic chemicals

This report brings together publicly available information on semiconductor companies, analyses of employment data, and worker interviews to make the case that workplace conditions in the industry must be improved — and that the CHIPS program must do more to ensure that the billions of public dollars set to be invested actually create the good jobs that have been promised.

Authors: Sarah Anderson, Natalia Renta

Date published: July 11, 2024

This report analyzes the use of stock buybacks by 11 firms in line to receive billions of dollars in public funding for semiconductor production through the CHIPS Act.

Between 2019 and 2023, these chipmakers spent more than $41 billion combined on stock buybacks, which inflate the value of CEO pay. That sum would’ve been enough to provide 300,000 employees a $27,541 bonus every year for five years. The report urges the Biden-Harris administration to incorporate strict buyback restrictions in CHIPS grantee contracts.

Authors: Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo, Kalena Thomhave

Date Published: May 14, 2024

As the climate crisis intensifies, the private jet industry is facing a reckoning over its massive carbon footprint. After all, private jets emit 10 to 20 times more pollutants per passenger than commercial planes. According to one estimate, U.S. private jets emitted more than 16 million metric tons of carbon in 2022.

Specifically, they’re promising to develop and use a less-polluting alternative to fossil jet fuel, commonly referred to as “sustainable aviation fuel” or SAF. This fuel is typically made from crops or waste and can be substituted for current forms of jet fuel, or more likely mixed with it, ostensibly reducing emissions.

Unfortunately, we find that these fuels are largely — so far — a false solution.

Authors: Sarah Anderson, Zachary Tashman, William Rice

Date published: March 13, 2024

The Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Tax Fairness analyzed executive pay data for some of the country’s most notorious corporate tax dodgers over the period 2018-22 and found 64 of them paid more to their top five executives than they did in federal taxes in at least two out of those five years. For over half (35) of these corporations, their payouts to top corporate brass over that entire span exceeded their net tax payments.

Authors: Chuck Collins, Helen Flannery, Bella DeVaan

Date published: November 15, 2023

A report detailing how the ultra-wealthy use charitable giving to avoid taxes and exert influence, while ordinary taxpayers foot the bill. We found that signers of the Giving Pledge who were billionaires in 2010 saw their wealth grow by 138 percent, or 224 percent when adjusted for inflation, through 2022.

Authors: Chuck Collins, Kalena Thomhave, Omar Ocampo, Jiajin Wu

Date published: October 1, 2023

This report analyzes a proposal to expand Hanscom Field airport to accommodate a 300 percent increase in private jet services. Based on a comprehensive analysis of private flights traveling to and from Hanscom Field over an 18-month period, we find that the expansion would primarily serve the wealthiest travelers in the region, many of whom frequently take short-hop flights to recreational and luxury destinations.

Author: Sarah Anderson

Date published: August 24, 2023

This 29th annual Executive Excess report takes an in-depth look at the 100 S&P 500 corporations that had the lowest median worker pay levels in 2022, a group we’ve dubbed the “Low-Wage 100.” For each of these firms, we report the total compensation and personal stock holdings of CEOs, the CEO-worker pay gap, and the overall outlays for stock buybacks.

We also reveal how taxpayers are enriching ― through federal contracts ― the majority of the Low-Wage 100. And we conclude with the most comprehensive available policy menu for achieving a fair corporate compensation system.

Authors: Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo, Sally Sim

Date published: August 16, 2023

Sixty years after the famed March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his landmark “I Have a Dream” speech, African Americans are on a path where it will take 500 more years to reach economic equality.

Our country has taken significant steps towards racial equity since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ‘60s. But growing income and wealth inequality over the last four decades has supercharged historic racial wealth disparities, slowing and even reversing many of those gains.

Sixty years without substantially narrowing the Black-white wealth divide is a policy failure. But just as federal policy helped create the racial wealth gap, it can also help close it. In this report, we look in detail at the state of that divide and recommend policy reforms that would substantially narrow it within one to two generations.

Authors: Sarah Anderson and Scott Klinger

Date published: May 2023

Ordinary employees with access to 401(k) plans face strict limits on the amounts they can set aside, tax-free, for their golden years. Most senior executives of large corporations, on the other hand, have unlimited tax-deferred compensation accounts. Often called “top hat” plans, these special perks for executives are growing rapidly.

This joint report with Jobs With Justice explains that double standard, highlights the large low-wage corporations where the retirement divide is starkest, and lays out how to make the system fairer for the workers who make these companies so valuable in the first place.

Authors: Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo, Kalena Thomhave

Date published: May 1, 2023

Private jets have rightfully earned their reputation as symbols of excess. As society’s wealth has concentrated in fewer hands over the last several decades, there has been an explosion in private jet purchases and travel.

This expensive, carbon-intensive form of travel is bad for both the earth and the taxpayers who subsidize it for the ultra-rich. In this joint report with the Patriotic Millionaires, we assess the environmental, economic, and security risks of private jet travel — and lay out tax reforms to offset them.

Authors: Sarah Anderson and Brian Wakamo

Date published: August 17, 2022

This policy brief focuses on the 74 low-wage U.S. corporations that received more than $1 million in federal contracts from FY2019 to May 1, 2022. Together, they held $37.2 billion in contracts during this period.

The gap between CEO and median pay at these contractors increased from an average of 483 to 1 in 2020 to 599 to 1 in 2021. Only four of the firms had ratios of less than 100 to 1. Their average CEO compensation rose from $7.7 million in 2020 to $13.0 million last year, while median pay averaged $26,838 in 2021, up from $23,107 in 2020.

Seventeen of the firms repurchased their own shares in 2021, with expenditures totaling $4.6 billion. Stock buybacks siphon artificially inflates the value of a company’s shares — and the value of their CEO’s stock-based pay.

Authors: Sarah Anderson, Sam Pizzigati, Brian Wakamo

Date published: June 2022

This 28th edition of our annual flagship CEO pay report reveals how low-wage corporations have continued to pump up CEO pay during the pandemic while workers are struggling with rising costs.

The report zeroes in on the 300 publicly held U.S. corporations that reported the lowest median worker wages in 2020. At over a third of these firms, median worker pay either fell or failed to rise above the 4.7 percent average U.S. inflation rate in 2021. By contrast, CEO pay at these firms soared 31 percent to an average of $10.6 million. This stunning increase drove the average gap between CEO and median worker pay at these companies to 670-to-1, up from 604-to-1 in 2020.

Of the 106 companies in our sample where median worker pay did not keep pace with inflation, 67 blew a combined total of $43.7 billion on stock buybacks. This financial maneuver inflates executive stock-based pay and drains capital from worker raises, R&D, and other productivity-boosting investments.

Authors: Chuck Collins, Joe Fitzgerald, Helen Flannery, Omar Ocampo, Sophia Paslaski, & Kalena Thomhave

Date Published: June 2021

While media attention focuses on first-generation billionaires, we neglect to look at the troubling growth of dynastic families and the changes in tax policies that will enable the children of today’s billionaires to become tomorrow’s oligarchs.

This report tracks the 50 wealthiest families from 1983 to 2020 using data from Forbes. IPS researchers found that by 2020, the 50 families had amassed $1.2 trillion in assets. For the 27 families on the Forbes 400 list in 1983, their combined wealth had grown by 1,007 percent, from $80.2 billion to $903.2 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars, and for the five wealthiest dynastic families, their wealth increased by a median 2,484 percent during 37 years.

As this report argues, In a healthy democratic society with a functioning tax system, wealth disperses over decades as people have children, pay their taxes, and give to charity. But with a weak tax system on wealth, we are now seeing wealth accelerate over generations, leading to consolidated wealth and power.

In 2008, executives chasing after huge paydays crashed the U.S.economy. That crisis left millions of Americans homeless and jobless. In the wake of that disaster, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle called for strict caps on CEO compensation at bailed out firms. But Wall Street banks and major corporations blocked those restrictions, arguing they couldn’t possibly retain and attract “top talent” if they couldn’t offer mega-million-dollar paychecks.

Today we’re living through a period of even greater national suffering. Over the course of the pandemic, our frontline workers have repeatedly proven how absolutely essential their work remains, to both our economy and our health. And yet, as we document in this 27th annual Institute for Policy Studies Executive Excess report, corporate boards are performing cartwheels to protect huge paychecks at the top of our corporate hierarchies.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light what we have always known: Our homes are vital to our safety, health, and well-being. But a handful of billionaires and corporate landlords have seen the pandemic as an opportunity to cash in on these hard times.

Instead of more billionaire bailouts, we need to make sure all families can stay safely in our homes. And we must start to rebuild housing systems in this country using innovative strategies that center Black and Brown families and make it clear that our homes are for people, not profit.

While the pandemic has devastated Black and Brown communities, a small handful of wealthy, white billionaire landlords are cashing in to the tune of millions. In this report, produced by Bargaining for the Common Good, the Institute for Policy Studies, and the Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, we lay out clearly who’s winning, who’s losing, and what to do about it.

Authors: Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo, Frank Clemente, Arianna Fano, and Will Rice

Date Published: February 2021

On the eve of the 2021 Super Bowl, and after 10-plus months of the pandemic, 64 billionaire owners of major league sports franchises—including the AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs’ Hunt family and the NFC champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ Glazer family—have enjoyed a $98.5 billion rise in their collective net worth, a 30 percent increase, even as millions of fans have fallen ill, lost jobs, neared eviction, gone hungry and died due to the coronavirus.

This report is a joint effort by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF).

Authors: Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo, Bianca Agustin, Jonathan Heller, and Sara Myklebust

Date Published: November 2020

A handful of billionaires and corporations have seen their wealth surge to record levels, in part as a result of their monopoly status and opportunism during the pandemic.

Meanwhile, private equity firms have bought up essential businesses in the health care, grocery, and pet care industries, only to aggressively cut costs, skimp on worker safety, and load companies up with debt to boost their own profits.

This report focuses on a list of 12 emblematic bad actors. We call them the Delinquent Dozen — corporations that should do significantly more to protect their workers as their owners and executives continue to reap billions.

This report was produced by Bargaining for the Common Good, the Institute for Policy Studies, and United for Respect. Published in partnership with Action Center on Race and the Economy, Americans for Financial Reform, Jobs with Justice, New York Communities for Change, Step Up Louisiana, and Working Washington.

Authors: Helen Flannery and Chuck Collins

Date Published: July 2020

Over the last two decades, charitable giving has been on a steady upward trajectory. But this growth has masked a troubling trend: Charity is becoming increasingly undemocratic, with organizations relying more on larger donations from a smaller number of wealthy donors, while receiving shrinking amounts of revenue from donors at lower-and middle-income levels.

What’s more, a growing share of these high-end donations go not to the organizations that actually perform charitable work, but to tax-privileged private foundations and donor-advised funds that pay only a small percentage of their assets to support this work.

Gilded Giving 2020 puts forward several possible implications of these conditions and suggests some solutions.

Authors: Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo, Dedrick Asante Muhammad, and Darrick Hamilton

Date Published: June 2020

The racial wealth divide is where the past shows up in the present. The glaring gap in wealth reflects the multigenerational history of white supremacy in the United States and the systematic denial of wealth-building opportunities to Black people. Chattel slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, and predatory loans are reflected in the wide disparities in bank accounts, homeownership, financial wealth, and overall well-being between white people and Black and Latino people in the United States.

In our new report, White Supremacy is the Pre-existing Condition, we found that the concentration of wealth has surged during the pandemic, further exacerbating an already extreme racial wealth divide.

Authors: Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo, and Sophia Paslaski

Date Published: April 2020

As the pandemic-fueled U.S. unemployment rate approaches 15 percent, America’s billionaire class is experiencing a wealth surge. Between March 18 and April 10, as the U.S. employment rate approached 15 percent, the combined wealth of America’s billionaires increased by $282 billion — nearly a 10 percent increase. After a brief decline, the combined wealth of U.S. billionaires is greater than their 2019 levels. Eight of these billionaires — the “pandemic profiteers” — have seen their net worth surge by over $ 1 billion. Our report looks at several longer term trends and makes a number of recommendations to ensure that this pandemic doesn’t lead to a further concentration of billionaire wealth and power.

Authors: Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati

Date Published: September 2019

This report reveals staggering stats on the gap between CEO and worker pay and estimates just how much revenue tax penalties on companies with extreme CEO-worker pay divides could raise. The report finds that at the 50 publicly traded U.S. corporations with the widest pay gaps in 2018, the typical employee would have to work at least 1,000 years — an entire millennium — to earn what their CEO made in just one. Among S&P 500 firms, nearly 80 percent paid their CEO more than 100 times their median worker pay in 2018. If these firms had to pay a corporate income tax penalty, the federal government would have collected as much as $17.2 billion in additional 2018 federal taxes.

Authors: Chuck Collins

Date Published: October 2019

This report takes a preliminary peek at the challenges posed by Seattle’s luxury boom by looking at a snapshot of luxury condominiums and their ownership and occupancy trends. We look at eight fully sold luxury buildings to see what we can learn. From this, we encourage the city and policymakers to monitor the thousands of new luxury units in the pipeline and consider increased transparency requirements around ownership. We identified, for example, five new luxury-building projects with 1,664 units in development, most coming on market at much higher prices.

Authors: Chuck Collins, Darrick Hamilton, Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Josh Hoxie

Date Published: April 15, 2019

In this report, we offer 10 bold solutions broken into three categories: Programs, Power and Process. These solutions are designed to strike at the structural underpinnings holding the racial wealth divide in place while inspiring activists, organizers, academics, journalists, legislators and others to think boldly about taking on this incredibly important challenge. This summary outlines the 10 solutions, gives a snapshot of the latest racial wealth divide data, and offers a warning against false solutions.

Authors: Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie, Sabrina Terry

Date Published: January 14, 2019

This report looks at the trends in household wealth among Black, Latino and White households over the past three decades. It relies on data from the Federal Reserve Board’s most recent triannual Survey of Consumer Finances. The Racial Wealth Divide Over the past three decades, a polarizing racial wealth divide has grown between White households and households of color. Since the early 1980s, median wealth among Black and Latino families has been stuck at less than $10,000. Meanwhile, White household median wealth grew from $105,300 to $140,500, adjusting for inflation.

Authors: Chuck Collins, Helen Flannery, and Josh Hoxie

Date Published: November 18, 2018

What are the risks to the autonomy of the independent nonprofit sector—not to mention our democracy—when a growing amount of philanthropic power is held in fewer hands? Our report takes a close look at the impact of increasing economic inequality on the philanthropic sector.

Authors: Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie

Date Published: October 30, 2018

Wealth in the United States is concentrating into fewer and fewer hands, a trend we tracked in two previous Billionaire Bonanza reports in 2015 and 2017. This year’s edition, Billionaire Bonanza 2018: Inherited Wealth Dynasties in the 21st-Century U.S., focuses primarily on “dynastic” wealth that has passed from one generation to another within families. Our analysis is based on the Forbes magazine list of the 400 wealthiest individuals in the United States and the Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances.

Authors: Chuck Collins, Emma de Goede

Date Published: September 10, 2018

This report examines 12 existing luxury condominium buildings, with 1,805 units, with average values over $3 million, finding that many of these condominiums are not for existing Bostonians. We examine how Boston could better protect the public interest and, in the process, capture more of the current luxury real estate wealth flow to support affordable housing for Boston residents. We focus here on residential condominium ownership as a form of “wealth storage” and examine twelve of the highest-priced and presently occupied luxury housing developments constructed in Boston over the last decade.

Author: Sarah Anderson

Date Published: August 28, 2018

This report analyzes CEO-worker pay gaps at top federal contractors and subsidy recipients, finding that more than two thirds of the top 50 federal contractors and corporate subsidy recipients paid their CEO more than 100 times their median worker pay in 2017.

Authors: Chuck Collins, Helen Flannery, Josh Hoxie

Date Published: July 25, 2018

At a time of staggering inequality, wealthy individuals are using donor-advised funds, or DAFs, to claim substantial tax benefits, while often failing to move funds in a timely manor to independent nonprofits addressing urgent social needs. Of particular concern are the growing number of DAFs founded by for-profit Wall Street financial corporations that provide incentives for the warehousing of wealth. This report, Warehousing Wealth: Donor-Advised Charity Funds Sequestering Billions in the Face of Growing Inequality, documents the dramatic expansion of DAFs and the risks an unregulated DAF system poses to the public interest and the charitable sector.

Authors: Chuck Collins, Jessicah Pierre, Josh Hoxie

Date Published: May 8, 2018

This report details the transition from a debt free public higher education system to one that leaves hundreds of thousands of students deep in debt year after year. It also details the corresponding tax cut given to the wealthiest Californians, the lost revenue of which could have been used to pre-empt the growing student debt crisis.

Authors: Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie

Date Published: November 29, 2017

The private jet lobby – and their super-wealthy passengers – have created a parallel universe of perks and privileges that would shock most commercial passengers if they knew about them. In both tax policy and homeland security, the high flyers have used their power to create one set of rules for themselves and another set of rules for the rest of us. Our report, High Flyers 2017, looks at the vaulted status of private jets in our tax code and the impact of the Trump tax cuts on the private jet set.

Author: Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie

Date Published: November 8, 2017

Wealth inequality in the United States has stretched to obscene levels to the point now where just three people own more wealth than the bottom half of the United States combined.

Authors: Chuck Collins, Dedrick Asante-Muhammed, Emanuel Nieves, Josh Hoxie

Date Published: September 11, 2017

In this report, we look at the racial wealth divide at the median over the next four and eight years, as well as to 2043, when the country’s population is predicted to become majority non-white. We also look to wealth rather than income to reconsider what it means to be middle class. In finding an ever-accelerating gap, we consider what it means for the American middle class and we explore what policy interventions could reverse the trends we see today. We find that without a serious change in course, the country is heading towards a racial and economic apartheid state.

Author: Chuck Collins

Date Published: August 7, 2017

What would it take to really reverse inequality? Let’s go beyond false solutions to understand the systemic drivers and the challenges of concentrated wealth and power.

Author: Sarah Anderson

Date Published: March 21, 2017

The cost of removing Obamacare limits on the tax deductibility of executive compensation, based on pay data at the top 5 insurers.

Author: Sarah Anderson

Date Published: March 15, 2017

The 2016 bonus pool held enough dollars to lift the pay of all of the country's more than 3 million servers up to $15 an hour.

Author: Sarah Anderson, Scott Klinger

Date Published: December 15, 2016

As working families face rising retirement insecurity, CEOs enjoy platinum pensions.

Author: Chuck Collins, Helen Flannery, Josh Hoxie

Date Published: November 16, 2016

Top-Heavy Philanthropy in an Age of Extreme Inequality

Author: Sam Pizzigati, Sarah Anderson

Date Published: August 31, 2016

This 23rd annual report reveals how taxpayers are subsidizing financial crisis windfalls.

Author: Chuck Collins, Dedrick Asante-Muhammed, Emanuel Nieves, Josh Hoxie

Date Published: August 8, 2016

Without Change, African-American and Latino Families Won't Match White Wealth for Centuries

Author: Janet Redman, Sarah Anderson, Scott Klinger

Date Published: July 19, 2016

How ending tax dodging by America's electric utilities can help fund a job-creating, clean energy transition.

Author: Sarah Anderson

Date Published: March 8, 2016

The financial industry’s 2015 bonuses were double the combined earnings of all Americans who work full-time at the federal minimum wage.

Author: Sarah Anderson, Scott Klinger

Date Published: December 22, 2015

Loophole allowed 10 companies to shave $180 million off their taxes for CEO pay last year.

Author: Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie

Date Published: December 1, 2015

Wealthiest 20 people own more wealth than half the American population

Author: Sarah Anderson, Scott Klinger

Date: October 28, 2015

One hundred CEOs have as much in retirement assets as 41 percent of American families.

Author: Chuck Collins, Sam Pizzigati, Sarah Anderson

Date: September 2, 2015

This 22nd annual report reveals how CEO pay is accelerating climate change.

Author: Sarah Anderson, Scott Klinger

Date: April 1, 2015

President Obama and some members of Congress think the easiest way to fund infrastructure is by granting corporations a large tax cut on their untaxed offshore profits.

Author: Sarah Anderson

Date: March 11, 2015

The financial industry’s 2014 bonuses were double the combined earnings of all Americans who work full-time at the federal minimum wage.

Author: Sarah Anderson, Scott Klinger

Date: November 18, 2014

A growing number of corporations spend more on executive compensation than federal income taxes.