Tag: rich
Analysis shows top US CEOs made 254 times more than median...
A higher minimum wage and unions can put corporate greed in check and raise wages throughout the labor market."
Still another reason for taxing the rich
America’s wealthiest, new ProPublica data suggest, may be even richer than we thought.
Rep. Jamaal Brown introduces legislation that will propose income tax reform...
The introduced tax code for the nearly 700 billionaires would raise $1 trillion over ten years, according to a press release.
America’s top 15 earners and what they reveal about the US...
A new report reveals that the very richest pay lower rates than the merely rich.
Billionaires will not save us. Here’s what will
It’s high time that we draw from the massive wealth of knowledge possessed by Indigenous peoples.
America’s inherited wealth dynasties park trillions out of reach of taxation
It is equally important to understand how multi-generational wealth dynasties are deploying dynasty trusts and other elaborate tax dodges to sequester trillions and dodge inheritance taxes.
A Super Bowl musing: Can pro sports be more than a...
A cyber-savvy deep pocket is claiming he has the key to ‘democratizing’ our sporting landscape
Richest 1% took 38% of new global wealth since 1995. The...
"If there is one lesson to be learnt from the global investigation, it is that inequality is always a political choice."
Our new art ‘appreciation,’ billionaire-style
Fine art has never been more financially lucrative — or less central to our culture.
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Federal agents face protests after Trump orders unprecedented takeover of DC police
Residents denounce checkpoints and expanded federal presence as civil liberties advocates warn of authoritarian overreach.
Will Trump-Putin summit leave Ukraine and Europe out in the cold?
If he repeats his past performances at summits with Putin and appears to back the Russian leader over his country’s closest allies, it is likely to cause a dangerous rift in the western alliance.
America first is America alone
Power-crazed the president may be, but he fails to grasp soft power.
Pesticides cause 2024 mass die-off of Western monarch butterflies, new study finds
The study was a result of researchers discovering the mass die-off of hundreds of monarch butterflies near the Pacific Grove Monarch Sanctuary in California, where the butterflies overwinter.
Cults, cults, everywhere—raring to bash majority rule, pluralism, justice, science and rationality. Isn’t that...
Thanks to its own greed, egotism, buffoonery, incompetence, and ruthlessness, the MAGA cult is already splitting apart, squandering its overweening power.