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Sarah Anderson and Chris Mills Rodrigo, 10 Inequality Victories in 2024.
Our year-end review of 10 of the most inspiring inequality wins, from union drives to fair taxes to consumer protection.
Helen Flannery and Bella DeVaan, The Sisyphean Task of Giving Tuesday. The national day of donations brought in $3.6 billion this year — we need to make sure that money is actually going to charitable causes.
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Tonight, January 8, at 7pm EST, join our own Chuck Collins in a panel discussion on private jets and "sustainable" aviation fuels. To register, click here.
Elsewhere on the web
Iker Seisdedos, Elon Musk, unelected president and agent of chaos, El País. All Musk’s companies, notes Inequality.org’s Chuck Collins, have undergone traumatic restructurings at the expense of their workers.
Rasheeda Childress, 5 Trends That Will Shape Fundraising in 2025, The Chronicle of Philanthropy. A look at how the landscape for fundraisers will change over the next year.
Ingrid Robeyns, People With Extreme Wealth Should Give It Away — or Be Penalized, Wired. In 2025, the fight against rising wealth inequality will be high on the global political agenda. The Belgian-Dutch philosopher Robeyns explains why.
Bernie Sanders, Two Americas, the people vs. the billionaires, Fox News. Over 60 percent of Americans now live paycheck to paycheck. Meanwhile, our three richest hold more wealth than the nation’s bottom half, over 165 million people.
Rachel Greenley, Packed Cubicles, Empty Corner Office: Remote Work Is Increasingly a Right of the Rich, New York Times. Starbucks now has a private jet that takes its chief exec to his Seattle corporate office from his home — in Southern California.
Damian Carrington, ‘We need dramatic social and technological changes’: is societal collapse inevitable? Guardian. Studies of failed civilizations consistently show that deep inequality and social disaster go hand in hand.
Lynn Parramore, America’s Health Insurance Grinches: A Scathing Indictment of “Market” Economics, Institute for New Economic Thinking. The deeply flawed U.S. insurance model, driven by greed, leads to inefficiency, inequality, and denied care — a colossal scam that has sparked fury across the nation.
Robert Reich, The 20 realities of the American system (before Trump gets a second crack at wrecking it even more), Substack. Forget politics as battles between Democrats and Republicans. Our underlying contest sets an oligarchy of extraordinarily wealthy against a vast majority with little wealth at all.
Timothy Noah, We’re Already Seeing Signs That Trump Is Tanking the Economy, The New Republic. Donald Trump’s election provides a useful occasion to examine the difference between what rich people want and what constitutes a thriving economy.
William Gale, Oliver Hall, and John Sabelhaus, How should we tax the Great Wealth Transfer? Brookings. Taxing inheritances and unrealized capital gains at death would close two of the largest loopholes in the U.S. tax code.
Danny Sriskandarajah, The rest is not just politics: how inequality is trumping democracy, LSE. The exponential accumulation of wealth and power by the “private few” is reducing the capacity of the “public many” to exercise the freedom to make the choices that shape our lives.
Sasha Abramsky, My 2025 Project: Starting a New Column, The Nation. Elon Musk, with Trump’s full blessing, is treating America as he treated Twitter. He’s regarding it as his personal prize, as conquered corporate territory, its assets to be disposed of how he sees fit.
