Tag: poor

A little history can help us with the answer.

For the great majority of Americans without a share of the stock market, and for those who can't work from home, the pandemic is adding the prospect of a financial collapse to all their other concerns.

"This is a grotesque indicator of the deep inequalities in U.S. society."

In addition to boosting wages, it will take major policy changes, like making child care more universally available and affordable, to offset the skyrocketing costs of living for American workers.

It turns out we know far less, by contrast, about Americans who live amid great wealth.

As the agency’s ability to audit the rich crumbles, its scrutiny of the poor has held steady in recent years. Meanwhile, a new study shows that audits of poor taxpayers make them far less likely to claim credits they might be entitled to.

"This is an act of solidarity with drivers across the country, and really across the world, who are suffering with poverty wages."

"A novel way to take health care etc. away from people AND make it look like there are fewer poor people – change the formula."

We have a lot of wealth per capita. Why can't we share it?

If between 1979 and 2018, the American economy almost tripled in size, so where did the gains go? Most went to the top.