Wall Street executives are taking advantage of the pandemic to enrich themselves while plundering companies in their portfolios and putting workers' jobs at greater risk.
With fortunes inflated by corporate welfare, wealthy real estate owners can afford to cancel housing-related expenses and debts for millions of struggling American families.
Wish-lists of progressive public policies never change the world. But they sometimes do excite the people who can.
A new House proposal would ensure that all Americans in hard-hit areas could have a job. A tax on Wall Street windfalls would pay for it.
