Income Distribution

Payday lending is inherently predatory and private equity is turbocharging its abuses, enlarging the burden it places on low-income individuals and borrowers of color.

President Gustavo Petro’s government plans to raise $20 trillion Colombian pesos through a hyper-targeted tax on less than one percent of the country’s top earners. Other nations should take notice.

Lawmakers are considering year-end tax breaks for corporations. A little help for families like yours and mine would go much further.

Too many lawmakers are happy to dole out subsidies for the rich and corporations while resisting pay increases for educators.