Executive compensation analyst Sarah Anderson testified before the Portland, Oregon city council about a proposed increase in ...

As companies trap us in subscriptions, bury us in fees, and use algorithms to fix prices, we need a new Shoppers’ Bill of ...

Private-equity magnate Jeffrey Leerink has been busy pillaging healthcare and the life sciences.

A cadre of anti-tax Californians have seen their personal wealth increase by over 64 percent in the last twenty months.

Over 15 months and 22 states, I met families struggling with cuts to Medicaid and SNAP and the people refusing to let their neighbors face those struggles alone.

New York City’s $100 tickets for 1,000 residents offered a small experiment in economic democracy — and an effort to keep the ...

After nearly two decades of tracking the American private jet industry here at the Institute for Policy Studies, we are formally launching the Private Jet Accountability Project with a Tax Private ...

How can the U.S. reverse democracy-distorting concentrations of wealth and power? A federal annual wealth tax must be part of the equation. The richest 0.1 percent — the top one-thousandth of ...

For years, the people organizing against extreme inequality have made a simple argument that the world’s institutions preferred not to hear: the gap between the very rich and everyone else is not an ...

At the close of 2024 there were 813 billionaires in the United States with a combined total wealth of $6.72 trillion, according to an analysis of the Forbes wealth data. The total number of ...

Conventional wisdom claims that far-right voters are the least supportive of redistribution and the least likely to change their minds when faced with facts about inequality. But my recent study with ...

The GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” passed by the narrowest of margins in Congress and signed into law by President Trump, represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since ...