Tag: rich
President Biden’s Tax-the-Rich plan: Just how bold?
A little history can help us with the answer.
What can we do to start civilizing our richest?
Worldwide, ever more of us are realizing we need a ceiling on what our greediest can grab.
Supreme Court: A superstore for the super-rich?
This is America, after all, where rich white men can buy whatever they want, including members of Congress and Supreme Court justices.
Citizen Musk
We’re back to the excesses of the Gilded Age, and Elon Musk is a modern-day robber baron.
How big corporations are draining the life out of a sick...
If today's companies were truly offering a fair return to the taxpayers who built their businesses, they'd be doing a lot more to ensure that all Americans have the means to support their families.
2021: Half of America facing poverty
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.
Protesting where it hurts the super-rich
That 60% of Americans whose wealth is matched by a roomful of billionaires should be working together to fight economic injustice.
‘Grotesque’: While 41 million people lost jobs due to COVID-19, US...
"This is a grotesque indicator of the deep inequalities in U.S. society."
Bill Moyers and Neil Barofsky on big bailouts
"The big financial institutions who were– obviously the biggest winners of the last bailout– they’re gonna win again. They always win. That’s kinda the way our system is organized."
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A successful general strike requires trauma-informed mutual aid
To strike at scale and over the long-term, we need to build real trust so that we can lean on each other when the paychecks stop.
This is what accountability looks like
Whether it's the refusal to release all the Epstein files, the failure to punish Trump for his anti-democratic actions, or the launching of the war in Iran, the United States is becoming as unaccountable as Russia under Putin.
Documents reveal a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they...
ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.
Trump economy loses 92,000 jobs in February as economists warn labor market weakness is...
New Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows unemployment rising and hiring slowing across major industries as economists warn that policy uncertainty, tariffs, and economic shocks are weighing on the labor market.
Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”