Research & Commentary

The latest tax proposals in Congress are an okay first step, but don't go far enough to address one of the biggest enablers of dynastic wealth.

Unless this generation-skipping tax exemption is strengthened, wealth dynasties will continue to grow and proliferate.

The interactive web site analyzes the central role of race and gender in the creation and perpetuation of economic inequality.

We asked nine leading Black labor organizers and policy advocates how to advance racial equity in the Covid recovery — and beyond. Here are their responses.

Labor groups refused to give in after rideshare companies won an anti-worker state ballot initiative last year through a heavily funded disinformation campaign.

The former mineworker received the Institute’s Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award in 1990 for his leadership in the successful Pittston coal strike.

The “basis step-up” lets wealthy people avoid paying income tax on lifetimes of investment gains.

Pakistan is the latest country to reject the system that allows private investors to sue governments in international tribunals. But Ecuador is back-tracking and the lawsuits continue to proliferate.

From the very start, the giant retailer's business strategy has relied on dodging taxes and pocketing public subsidies.

Black workers have suffered disproportionately from U.S. trade policies designed to benefit the wealthy.