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This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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Reaching Critical Mass On Taxing The Rich
Polls regularly show broad public support for having our wealthiest pay quite a bit more at tax time. But we haven’t had critical mass on taxing the rich within our political class – until now.
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Putting Billionaires In Their Place
America’s billionaires have suddenly realized they just may be facing an existential crisis: A good chunk of the American people, they now understand, would rather billionaires not exist.
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What Does Inequality Cost the Average American? About $150K
Americans pay a steep price for not spreading their wealth around as well as other developed countries.
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The Free Market Made Us Do It!
A new global CEO pay comparison, the most rigorous and comprehensive yet, demolishes the standard-issue corporate rationale for America’s over-the-top executive compensation.
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With the GOP Tax Plan, a New Economic Epoch Begins
Ten years down the road, 20 years down the road, how will the lives that Americans lead change if this Republican tax plan gets to shape our national future? Not for the better, say the world’s most prolific inequality analysts.
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What Is the True Cost of Inequality?
Comparing the U.S. to other more egalitarian-minded developed nations can give us a vivid sense of the high toll that inequality exacts.
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New Data on Tax Havens and Income Reveal America’s Great Divide
The incomes of America’s affluent are pulling away from the rest of the nation, as households in the top 5 percent saw their incomes in 2016 increase over twice as fast as households in the bottom 20 percent.
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Remembering Anthony Atkinson, Godfather of Research into Income and Wealth Distribution
With a new Congress and White House committed to wealth’s concentration, we’ll sorely miss the scholar who dedicated his life to documenting wealth’s maldistribution.
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A New Take on Unrigging Our Taxes
Our super rich have their own personal trainers, chefs, and pilots. Maybe we should give them their own personal tax collectors.
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For the Country's Lower Half, Perils of Rising Inequality Becoming Painfully Clear
Recent research published about the Great Recession adds to the already clear evidence that rising inequality translates into nearly all of today's winnings going to the wealthy.
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Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
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Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
The country has never moved as close to the course it took under Benito Mussolini as it is doing now — and even if Meloni is not a neo-fascist politician, she has put herself in a position to appeal to and broaden fascism's political base.
