Tag: wealth equality
Can Brazil convince the world to tax billionaire wealth?
The ambitious goal: To shove the case for taxing the wealth of our world’s wealthiest onto the world’s political stage.
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and you. Which one pays taxes?
Leaked IRS data shows just how little billionaires pay in taxes.
New Analysis reveals how little the top .001% pay in taxes
“Looks like the biggest tax story of the year, if not the decade.”
A third of U.S. billionaire wealth gains since 1990 have come...
U.S. billionaire pandemic profit balloons to $4.56 trillion, a 55 percent increase.
Tax evasion and the 1%
“The richest 1% of U.S. households don’t report 21% of their income.”
The year of cheating the poor
The poorest among us are being cheated. They're being cheated out of the opportunity to share in the great prosperity to which they and their parents and grandparents all contributed.
‘Yes, exactly,’ say progressives after Pence warns democrats will ‘make rich...
“You have to be all sorts of twisted to think ‘making poor people more comfortable’ is a bad thing.”
“It’s going to be a billionaire Thanksgiving.” Wealth of US richest...
“The increases in billionaire wealth continue to defy gravity in the real economy where millions have lost their jobs, health, and livelihoods.”
It’s futile… We’re FEUDAL!!
If the economy crashes those FAT CATS can live off of their savings and bonuses for years... while YOU start selling apples on street corners!
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Trump fast-tracks Great Lakes oil tunnel, triggering outcry over water and climate risks
Environmental groups and tribal nations warn the Line 5 tunnel project could endanger drinking water for 40 million people after Trump administration classifies it as an emergency.
‘No nonprofit is safe’: Trump escalates federal crackdown on civil society organizations
From Ivy League universities to climate and justice nonprofits, the Trump administration is deploying tax threats, federal takeovers, and embedded agents to suppress ideological dissent and dismantle nonprofit independence.
How 77 tons of radioactive waste ended up in Brooklyn
A lawsuit charges National Grid, a major gas utility, with mismanaging a toxic industrial site near two densely-populated residential neighborhoods.
Federal judge halts Trump administration freeze on billions in climate and infrastructure funds
Court rules that blocking congressionally approved aid for clean energy, public health, and environmental protection violated federal law and harmed communities nationwide.
Sick and unsafe: Trump attacks on workers’ rights is an attack on public health
This power shift hasn't just changed paychecks—it has fundamentally altered the physical and mental health landscape for millions of Americans.