wealth inequality

GREEN NEW DEAL XVI: Undoing Neoliberalism's Spell and Reclaiming Common Sense

This is the sixteenth installment in a series about extending the Green New Deal to confront multiple global crises.

‘We Are Part of the Problem’: Billionaires and Heirs Demand Wealth Tax

“We are writing to call on all candidates for President to support a moderate wealth tax on the fortunes of the richest one-tenth of the richest 1% of Americans — on us,” said the letter signed by 19 billionaires.

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Lessons Wealthy Britain Could Learn from Preston’s Worker-Centric Growth

A new economic model is afoot in the Lancashire city where government pumped funds into Preston-based businesses and encouraged the creation of cooperations owned and operated by workers.

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Why the 'One Percent' In the U.S. Is Worried

The wealthy elite increasingly recognizes that the socioeconomic status quo in the U.S. is unsustainable.

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We Are (Still) the 99 Percent

Occupy Wall Street was seen as a failure when it ended in 2011. But it’s helped transform the American left.

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The Kings of Capitalism are Finally Worried About the Growing Gap Between Rich and Poor

Now that the political debate has shifted, Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio is the latest in a bank of billionaires to talk about the gap between rich and poor

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A Cure for Excessive Wealth Disorder

This isn’t your parents’ inequality influenza, but a more virulent strain of extreme wealth disparities. Here's a simple test to determine whether politicians are carrying water for the richest 0.1 percent.

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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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