Tag: 1 percent
Reaching critical mass on taxing the rich
“Taxing the annual gains generated by wealth closes a host of loopholes, while raising the sort of revenue needed to keep Social Security and Medicare secure for years to come.”
America’s bullies
In recent years America has become a culture of bullying – the wealthier over the poorer, CEOs over workers, those with privilege and pedigree over those without, the whiter over the browner and blacker, men over women.
Does the United States have a ‘strong’ economy?
The bottom line: The economy that America’s rich run is doing quite well for America’s rich.
How to recognize a plutocracy: The dead giveaway
Our latest slam-dunk evidence: the record of the decade since the Wall Street financial crash ushered in the Great Recession.
What just happened? $30 trillion to the richest white Americans since...
These fortunate takers profited mainly from the stock market, which has more than tripled in value since the end of 2008.
Just hours after ordering pay cut for millions of public workers,...
"Trump himself has pocketed millions over the years grifting off of taxpayers, but now he wants to make it harder for workers to get ahead."
As global 1% seize economy’s gains, ‘unprecedented wage stagnation’ for everyone...
"With workers worldwide being left behind, we need to build an economy that works for everyone, not just the few at the top."
Goons in Gucci
The richest, most powerful, most privileged people in our land are intentionally savaging the well-being of America's majority and aggressively suppressing the democratic rights that make America, America.
Three more reasons for wealth-deprived Americans to take to the streets
The rest of America has been left behind, but their voices are getting louder.
The 1 Percent’s Useful Idiots
Did Bernie Sanders let us down? It looks like we will have to carry out the political revolution on our own.
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Watchdog reporting examines a pension officer’s fossil fuel trades and a fire truck monopoly
The Lever's latest investigations trace a California retirement chief's oil and gas stock trading and a spreading set of antitrust suits over who builds America's fire engines.
U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese Slams U.S. “Complicity” as Trump Meets Netanyahu Despite ICC Warrant
We speak to Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, about Israel’s continued impunity from international law.
ProPublica journalists strike over AI policy, exposing labor fault lines inside investigative media
The NewsGuild says two years of bargaining stalled over job security and artificial intelligence, and the union has taken its case to federal labor regulators.
Mississippi pension fund sues Apollo Global Management over downplayed Epstein ties
The fund manages retirement savings for hundreds of thousands of Mississippi teachers, police officers and other public workers, and a shareholder case like it can force a company to hand over internal records.
The Movement Against Big Tech’s Flock Cameras Transcends Partisanship—and It’s Winning
Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.