Wealth Concentration

Author of new book, From Here to Prosperity, Tom Burgess explains how to reduce wealth inequality by shifting to a more fair tax code. There is plenty of rhetoric about the wealthy...

Think you've heard it all about the Koch Brothers and the power of dark money? Think again. 

Flacks for grand fortune would like us to believe the rich are performing a public service every time they go shopping. Our wallets tell a different story.

While taxes have increased on the top one percent in recent years, taxes on the top one tenth of one percent have gone down.

Law professor Michael Graetz explains how a scrappy group of political neophytes used the immense wealth of their backers to push the repeal of the federal estate tax from a nonstarter into the mainstream.

Buybacks make executives rich. Bringing Big Pharma’s buybacks under control would be an obvious way of making health care more affordable. This post, co-authored by Ken Jacobson, communications director of...

Two decades before Bernie Sanders’ presidential candidacy, Tupac spoke of the evils of inequality to a national audience.

Our hedge fund kingpins are celebrating another year of super earnings — with more crumbs for the victims of the political choices that have made the hedgies so rich.

A new UNICEF report shows the U.S. lagging behind countries like Turkey and Slovakia on efforts to reduce childhood inequality, even as it ranks No. 1 in wealth. Originally published...