Tag: wealth inequality
Billionaires urge world leaders for higher wealth taxes at Davos Summit
Millionaires and billionaires, often seen as beneficiaries of global economic policies, are advocating for higher taxes on their wealth.
$8.5 trillion untaxed: The urgent call for a billionaire income tax
Recent analysis reveals that America's wealthiest hold $8.5 trillion in untaxed assets, spotlighting the critical need for tax reform to address growing wealth inequality.
In our deeply unequal world, the garbage rises ever higher
On Everest and elsewhere,the rich are creating waste.
Republicans look to give themselves a pay raise after securing benefit...
"House Republicans are moving to give themselves a raise while taking an ax to education, health, and other essential programs that help grow the economy by growing the middle class."
Tenants push Biden for rent control on all government-backed housing
‘They got richer, and we got priced out!’
How the super rich are killing Social Security
It’s going to run out of money before you can ever receive it if the rich don’t start paying their fair share.
World’s 500 richest people added $852 billion to their wealth in...
"They can afford to pay their fair share in taxes."
The boldest step to close the racial wealth divide in generations
Connecticut’s Baby Bond program, which launches in July, and similar proposals across the country show that we may finally be willing to take the next step.
What threatens Florida more, hurricanes or the rich?
Florida’s state government doesn’t call the shots. Florida’s rich do, and the continuing immensity of their after-tax incomes has turned out to matter far more to state policy than the well-being of Floridian families of modest means.
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Millions face delays as Trump administration ends Social Security phone verification
A new policy eliminating phone verification for Social Security benefits threatens to overwhelm field offices, cut off vulnerable recipients, and accelerate efforts to privatize the system.
Why ‘pro-Israel, pro-peace’ advocates cling to genocide denial
But very few members of Congress dare to acknowledge that reality, while their silence and denials scream out complicity.
Greenpeace ordered to pay $660 million in Dakota Access Pipeline case in landmark ruling...
The North Dakota jury’s decision against Greenpeace raises concerns over SLAPP lawsuits, corporate influence on the courts, and the broader threat to free speech and peaceful protest in the U.S.
Judge blocks Trump EPA from clawing back $14 billion in climate grants
Judge Chutkan said the government’s “vague and unsubstantiated assertions of fraud are insufficient.”
Trump’s backpedaling shows he’s not invincible
Protests will not directly convince Trump to change his views. But they can create an activated base of opposition.