Fighting Inequality in One of the Nation’s Most Unequal States
The emerging statewide coalition Recovery For All is demanding progressive tax reform as a crucial step toward reducing extreme racial and economic disparities in Connecticut.
Wealth Concentration
Report: Silver Spoon Oligarchs: How America’s 50 Largest Inherited-Wealth Dynasties Accelerate Inequality
Fifty dynastic billionaire families hold as much wealth as the bottom half of U.S. families. Their wealth grew at ten times the rate of ordinary families over the last 40 years.
Dynasty Trusts: A Tool for Billionaire Tax Avoidance
A new policy brief outlines how the wealthy stow and grow their fortunes for future descendants.
Pandemic Recovery Must Include Care Worker Protections
‘Seeing as we are the ones who are supposed to be taking care of people, why is it that we are the least cared about?’
You Can Thank Donald Trump If You’re Feeling Poorer Today
New IRS data show the wealthy grew even richer in the Trump years while the rest of us fell back.
Inequalities Are Shaping How We’re Fighting the Pandemic — And How We’ll Remember It
Covid-19 infections in most countries have been hugely underestimated — not least because rich countries bought almost all the tests.
Living Ever Larger in the Lap of Luxury
The rich have become so rich that just selling to the rich can make you the world’s richest person.
To Grow Our Economic Pie, Cut More Equal Slices!
Redistributing wealth downward, new calculations suggest, can make societies richer.
Poor People’s Campaign and House Progressives Call for a ‘Third Reconstruction’
A new Congressional resolution lays out a comprehensive vision for eradicating poverty and tackling racial and economic inequality.