Tag: inequality

The UK’s Equality Trust has plenty of ideas for fostering a more equal and environmentally secure world. And building that world has become more fundamentally essential today than ever before.

As the wealthiest 1 percent amass unprecedented riches, inequality deepens, posing a dire threat to democracy and the planet, urging a reevaluation of global tax policies.

We can’t change the generation we get born into. We can change how the world we enter distributes income and wealth.

The super rich, worldwide, are regularly cowing their critics. Bay Staters have pounded back.

Do we need, some observers of our fraying social fabric suggest, more people in public life noble enough to champion basic ethical norms?

So how does inequality provoke criminality?

Can we actually start taxing the rich again?

Electric air taxis aren’t going to save the world. Really taxing the rich, on the other hand, could.

Fueling the crisis: how the affluent few intensify global warming.

Millionaires who skip their taxes should get audited, not the working poor. Closing that gap isn’t just fair — it’s essential to protect our democracy.