U.S. workers, consumers, and taxpayers have a big stake in developing country debt crises — and they have the power to tackle ...

The fight for a wealth proceeds tax in Washington, DC lives on, at least for now. Instead of floating a proposal during this ...

As we celebrate our country's 250th birthday, the most patriotic thing we can do is remember whose hands this country is ...

Washington, DC is a city rife with economic inequality, especially on the basis of race. Black residents have watched outgoing Mayor Muriel Bowser slash away at critical social safety net programs ...

For the past four years, we have compiled a list of the twenty public charities in the United States that took in the most donations. Some of the operating nonprofits on our list — such as the United ...

One of the great injustices of our current tax system is that working people often end up subsidizing the luxury consumption of the billionaire class. One example of this phenomena can be found in the ...

A recent analysis from the Tax Foundation argues that the U.S. federal income tax system remains solidly progressive. Citing new IRS data for tax year 2023, the group is emphasizing that high-income ...

There’s a virus in our tax system. A stealth virus, it was embedded in America’s economic DNA for a century, biding its time, waiting for the appropriate conditions to reveal itself. And then we ...

Our dependence on fossil fuels does more than pollute our air. It destabilizes the world and empowers the ultra-wealthy to profit off of that volatility, leaving working families to pay the price.

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 ...

Growing up in Northern California, Peet’s was always treated as a local coffee shop. The first location of the chain founded in 1966 was just a 15-minute train ride from my childhood home in the East ...