The fight for a wealth proceeds tax in Washington, DC lives on, at least for now. Instead of floating a proposal during this ...

Over the past five years, donor-advised fund sponsors have granted more than $23 billion to other donor-advised fund sponsors ...

As we celebrate our country's 250th birthday, the most patriotic thing we can do is remember whose hands this country is ...

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New Federal Reserve analysis of stock markets has found that the concentration of ownership of the public equity stock market has hit an all-time high. “The rich now own a record share of stocks,” ...

The share of the U.S. wealth pie owned by the top 0.1 percent grew 59.6 percent from 1989 to 2024, according to an Institute for Policy Studies analysis of Federal Reserve data, while the share of the ...

Recent reporting has confirmed what many working people already feel every day: companies are using personal data to decide the lowest wage someone will accept. What working people are calling ...

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Washington, DC is a city rife with economic inequality, especially on the basis of race. Black residents have watched outgoing Mayor Muriel Bowser slash away at critical social safety net programs ...

The rise of Uber and Lyft to ubiquity over the last decade has been astonishing — over 3 billion trips were taken using the platforms in 2023. Throughout that meteoric expansion to nearly every inch ...

For the past four years, we have compiled a list of the twenty public charities in the United States that took in the most donations. Some of the operating nonprofits on our list — such as the United ...

Nearly 10,000 Michigan nurses at Corewell Health East voted to unionize in November 2024, forming Teamsters Local 2024. It was the easiest “yes” we’ve ever said. But almost a year after winning our ...