Is Climate Change an Engine of Inequality?
Climate change disproportionately burdens the most vulnerable Americans while enriching a few at the top.
Taxes
How Much Wealth Are Our Wealthiest Hiding?
More than enough, the latest statistical evidence suggests, to warrant a full-fledged federal search. A new banking law in effect this month could start that search in the right direction....
The Many Pipelines that Pump Our Wealth Up
Wage squeezes, share buybacks, and tax subsidies, three new progressive think tank studies show, are all combining to keep America's high and mighty ever higher and mightier. By Sam Pizzigati...
What Makes the United States So Unequal?
In the United States, the government is doing less to reduce inequality than any other high-income society. By Robert J.S. Ross If governments did nothing, Western Europe and the United...
Taxes, the Rich, and Our Known Universe
Pundits and political scientists are always searching for that simple theory that'll explain just what makes our politics tick. Where should they be looking? How about in the eyes of...
Why Middle Class Tax Cuts Lead To Economic Growth
A middle class family will spend an extra dollar in the local economy and spur growth. A very wealthy family, instead of circulating an extra dollar in the local economy,...
A Tax Turnabout in the Ranks of the Right
A prominent conservative in Congress has released a tax reform package that actually will not leave the rich significantly richer. Should we be grateful for small blessings — or suspicious?...
Estate Taxes: Down to 1 Percent and Sinking
In America today, thanks to glaring loopholes in the tax code, even modestly competent tax attorneys can help their wealthy clients sidestep the federal estate tax almost entirely. By Bob...
Counting the Dollars the Rich Want Uncounted
Americans are gaining, ever so slowly, a more accurate picture of just how wide the gap has stretched between the nation's most fabulously privileged and everyone else. [caption id="attachment_5832" align="alignright"...