In other words, some 99.9999 percent of the proceeds of the Bezos stock sale last year counted as a taxable long-term capital ...

Health care workers are warning of dangerous conditions in hospitals for patients and nurses alike under the new law.

New research from the Center for Working-Class Politics shows that progressive economic policies can bring working-class ...

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Racial economic inequality is prevalent throughout the United States, and everyone suffers from it. Learn more.

Men dominate the top of the economic summit while other genders are saddled with debt, poverty, and much more suffering.

The growing movement to crack down on corporations that reward top executives at worker expense. Since 2018, U.S. publicly held corporations have had to annually report the ratio between their CEO and ...

Income Inequality Income includes the revenue streams from wages, salaries, interest on a savings account, dividends from shares of stock, rent, and profits from selling something for more than you ...

The tag “merchants of death” has long since disappeared from our American political lexicon. But the problem Nye named remains. Our contemporary corporate moguls are continuing to get rich off the ...

Once upon a time, here in the United States, we taxed the rich. Significantly. Today, by contrast, we’re actively enhancing their fortunes. Including the biggest personal fortune of them all, the ...

Republican leaders in Congress have been working feverishly over recent days to renew the rich people-friendly 2017 Trump tax cuts set to expire at this year’s end. Both the House and Senate have now ...

The new year has begun with old news: The world is continuing to become colossally more unequal — with the United States leading the way. In 2024, wealth trackers at Bloomberg have just reported in a ...