We won progressive taxes in our state by showing people just how unjust our tax code was. Other states can follow.

We equate wealth with “net worth,” the sum total of your assets minus liabilities. Assets can include everything from an owned personal residence and cash in savings accounts to investments in stocks ...

Nothing will symbolize the reality of this oligarchic power than Monday’s upcoming inauguration of Donald Trump. The ...

And intermediaries aren’t just taking in more charitable revenue — they’re taking in a higher proportion of that revenue. In ...

A new report tracks the monthly wealth of fossil fuel billionaires, who are already being rewarded for investing in Trump's ...

Trump campaigned on lowering prices for Americans. Instead, his first priority is to cut taxes for billionaires — and then ...

The “gig” model of labor popularized by Uber has found a new sector to upend: health care. On-demand nursing companies ...

Lashof is “a little more optimistic about the potential to abate emissions from the aviation sector by 2050 with synthetic ...

On the Trump II horizon, much more of the same.

Inequality has been on the rise across the globe for several decades. Some countries have reduced the numbers of people living in extreme poverty. But economic gaps have continued to grow as the very ...

Systemic racism has contributed to the persistence of race-based gaps that manifest in many different economic indicators. The starkest divides are in measures of household wealth, reflecting ...

Once upon a time, the United States seriously taxed the nation’s rich. You remember that time? Probably not. To have a personal memory of that tax-the-rich era, you now have to be well into your ...