Tag: wealth inequality
$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.
No more sacrifices
We have become all too used to the notion that success only comes with sacrifice, even if this is anything but the truth for the wealthiest and most powerful Americans.
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Senate Democrats demand investigation into Iran school bombing as Fetterman stands apart
Nearly the entire Democratic caucus calls for a probe into a deadly strike on a girls’ school in Minab while one senator backs the military operation.
Americans skipping meals and delaying life decisions as healthcare costs strain households nationwide
New Gallup surveys show tens of millions of Americans cutting back on food, utilities, and daily necessities to pay medical bills while healthcare affordability worsens.
EPA chief met with Bayer CEO over Supreme Court fight, agency records show
The June 17 meeting, between officials at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Bayer CEO Bill Anderson and two other top Bayer executives, came as Germany-based Bayer was working to quash costly U.S. litigation.
Fossil fuels as a weapon of war:’ US-Israeli war on Iran exposes world’s dangerous...
This comes as Israel has struck oil depots in Tehran, blanketing the capital in smoke and toxic rain.
War with Iran to test China’s energy security
U.S. military action is disrupting key energy suppliers, putting China’s reliance on foreign sources to the test. Even as Beijing strengthens domestic capacity and diversifies imports, the crisis exposes the limits of its energy strategy.