Program on Inequality and the Common Good

Billionaires are sequestered in protective bubbles and private jets while essential workers are without adequate personal protective equipment.

‘Billionaire Wealth vs. Community Health’ report urges Delinquent Dozen companies to protect workers from exploitative owners and executives.

The longer the law remains on the books, the tighter the squeeze on funding for state and local public services.

How to ‘donate’ land to a charity, but keep it for your own exclusive use.

An unseemly juxtaposition: 220,000 dead and millions lose their health, wealth and livelihoods.

The maldistribution of America’s income and wealth has reached levels that our conventional economic stats have trouble revealing.

U.S. billionaire wealth has climbed 28 percent since March 18th, 2020. During the same span, global billionaire wealth is up $1.5 trillion.

There are two tax systems in America: one for you and me, and one for the wealthiest 0.1 percent.

The late justice dedicated her career to women and other marginalized Americans, and we owe her the same faith she had in us.

He believed the estate tax was an “economic opportunity recycling program.”

The reporters behind the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers gave more to share. We should pay attention.

We need a movement to democratize philanthropy — and the concentrated wealth that increasingly defines it.

How we face this extraordinary inequality is the ultimate test of what kind of country we are and what we will become.

A disturbing milestone in the concentration of US wealth.

The Giving Pledgers set out to give away half of their wealth. Ten years later, their assets doubled. How do we break this pattern?

Billionaires get huge tax breaks to park money in private family foundations operated by wealthy heirs. Little goes to actual charity work

Philanthropy is at risk of becoming another extension of the private power of plutocrats, alongside monopoly ownership and media domination.

Inequality is making charity increasingly reliant on the rich. Here’s why wealthy people dominating philanthropy a problem and what we can do about it.

How Wealth Inequality Distorts Philanthropy and Imperils Democracy

Access to essential medications, like birth control, should not be subject to the whims of our employers.