Record Corporate Profits, Record Stock Buybacks, and the Plan to Tax Them
As corporations blow record sums repurchasing their stock to inflate CEO pay, Congress is advancing a tax aimed at curbing this harmful practice.
As corporations blow record sums repurchasing their stock to inflate CEO pay, Congress is advancing a tax aimed at curbing this harmful practice.
In the final stretch of Build Back Better Act negotiations, fair tax advocates are pushing Senator Sinema and other holdouts to end the carried interest loophole.
The country's prime minister has agreed to roll back laws that threatened to corporatize agriculture, jeopardizing the food security of more than 800 million people and further enriching the ultra-rich.
In a year when the majority of people struggled to get by, CEOs have only gotten richer. Now they are taking every opportunity to further pad their own pockets.
The Justice Department is ramping up efforts to fight corporate crime, which is particularly bad news for repeat offenders.
Whatever the outcome of the budget fight, immigrant rights advocates will continue to pressure elected officials to make good on their campaign promises for a pathway to citizenship.
The Seattle Democrat has been willing to take the heat to secure a down payment on an agenda for economic equity and sustainability.
Advocates have overcome opposition from conservative Democrats to secure four weeks of paid leave in the House budget bill, but more obstacles remain.
Better wages and health care may always face headwinds in Washington, but unions are striking to win them directly.