Inherited Wealth

"The past 30 years have seen far greater wealth creation than the Gilded Age," the UBS annual billionaires report says.

Denying the role of inherited wealth fuels the mythology of meritocracy and keeps us from addressing structural inequality.

We’ve reached the point where a handful of extraordinarily wealthy clans essentially have the power to suffocate our democracy.

A California campaign is pushing to add an innovative initiative to the November ballot. The plan: make public higher education tuition-free by restoring the estate tax.