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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A unionization drive at Amazon was never going to be easy — the Teamsters acknowledged enough when they voted in 2021 to make organizing the e-commerce behemoth a top priority. Not only do over 1 ...

Greed has become so rampant in the nation’s capital that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has turned green. On Sunday night, meanwhile, the oligarchs outdid themselves with a taxpayer-funded ...

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