The GOP plan slashes Medicaid, SNAP, and other core safety net programs to fund tax cuts for billionaires, mass deportation ...

Plato identified inequality as a central problem of politics. Inequality, this ancient Greek philosopher warned, undermines ...

Sustainergy has helped retrofit thousands of homes in Cincinnati. I’m more proud of the family-sustaining jobs we’ve created.

Trump’s trade policies have been wildly unpredictable in the first two months of his second presidency. Tariff deadlines have come and been delayed with no rhyme or reason, leaving cross-border trade ...

Income Inequality Income includes the revenue streams from wages, salaries, interest on a savings account, dividends from shares of stock, rent, and profits from selling something for more than you ...

My Capital & Main piece began with a deathbed promise to a friend, not the usual way I start assignments. My friend, a man in his mid-sixties, was dying from a terminal form of cancer. His oncologist ...

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 nature of the financial industry facilitates offshore tax dodging. Transactions in the multi-trillion dollar global derivatives market, for example, can be recorded nearly anywhere in the world to ...

The tag “merchants of death” has long since disappeared from our American political lexicon. But the problem Nye named remains. Our contemporary corporate moguls are continuing to get rich off the ...

Once upon a time, here in the United States, we taxed the rich. Significantly. Today, by contrast, we’re actively enhancing their fortunes. Including the biggest personal fortune of them all, the ...

Explore our poll results Ask whether human activity is the main cause of global warming, and 88 percent on the left will say yes, but only 37 percent on the right. Ask if the government should ensure ...

Key Findings The wealth of Giving Pledge signers is skyrocketing. Of the 62 people who signed the Giving Pledge that were billionaires in 2010, their combined wealth has almost doubled — from $376 ...