Tag: income inequality

Not only would a wealth tax raise revenue and help bring the economy back into balance, but it would also protect our democracy by reducing the influence of the super-rich on our political system.

Trump’s attack on regulation is just another form of trickle-down economics – where the gains go the top, and the risks and losses trickle down.

The corporate push to replace real pay with cheap “psychic income" is on the rise.

The richest 2-5%, those Americans with an average net worth of about $2.5 million, accumulated enough wealth in 2017 to pay for the safety net FOUR TIMES.

Why is it so hard for people with wealth and power to admit all this?

The breaks seldom pay for themselves — and put employees of local businesses out of work.

The new tax overhaul, passed by the Senate yesterday, will only exacerbate the problem.

With inequality ripping us apart, and with few of our national leaders willing or able to confront the problem, we may never again be an equitable and functional society.

America was never what it had purported to be.

The median wealth of the world's adults is $2,222, down from $3,248 at the end of 2007.