New research from the Center for Working-Class Politics shows that progressive economic policies can bring working-class ...

Consider the Los Angeles Unified School District. Today, its reserves stand at $6.4 billion, nearly 60 percent of its 2024 budget. Credit raters praise its restraint. Yet these savings have come at a ...

In February, the economist Gabriel Zucman posted an absolutely stunning graphic online that depicts the wealth of America richest 0.00001 percent as a share of our nation’s total household wealth. The ...

America’s 12 wealthiest now control $1 trillion of wealth. The only way to address this extreme wealth concentration: a tax on accumulated grand fortune.

Discipline and Punish: How Wall Street’s Grip on School Finance Deepens Inequality July 11, 2025 / by Claire Cahen ...

These interactive charts expose how the Covid-19 pandemic — and failed policy responses — are exacerbating class, race, & gender inequality.

The new law slashes vital services to pay for tax cuts for the rich and massive hikes in military and deportation funding.

Cutting taxes for the wealthy and businesses and paying for it with Medicaid cuts will not have a positive impact on growth ...

The following is written testimony prepared for a March 17, 2021 Senate Budget Committee hearing on “The Income and Wealth Inequality Crisis in America.” Thank you, Chairman Sanders, Ranking Member ...

The sex-trafficking scandal surrounding the late Jeffrey Epstein already has tarnished the reputations of prominent politicians, businessmen, and the British royal family. Now it’s casting a dark ...

The rationales for accepting vast inequalities of income and wealth simply do not hold up.

There are now 813 billionaires with $5.7 trillion in wealth, making the ten-figure club even more powerful economically and politically. We need a progressive taxation system to reverse inequality.