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

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Men dominate the top of the economic summit while women are saddled with higher levels of debt, poverty, and unpaid care work. The global trend towards extreme wealth and income concentration has ...

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

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 ...

Since 2020, we have tracked the money cycling between donor-advised fund sponsors. We found $23.5 billion over the five years from 2020 to 2024, and $7.5 billion in 2024 alone — all of which counts, ...

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 ...

More than 15 years ago, the Supreme Court removed limits on corporate political spending in its notorious Citizens United decision, ushering in an era of unprecedented influence by moneyed interests.

“Just as the commandment ‘Thou shalt not kill’ sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say ‘thou shalt not’ to an economy of exclusion and inequality.

Elon Musk is set to become the world’s first trillionaire today after the public debut of his rocket and AI company, SpaceX. Sit with that number for a moment. A trillion dollars. If you spent a ...

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 ...

For years, Congress and elected officials across the country have sidestepped one of the clearest economic problems facing working families: the minimum wage no longer keeps pace with the real cost of ...