Program on Inequality and the Common Good

Many companies are tweeting about their commitment to racial equity, but not practicing it in their own staffing.

The economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has strained municipal budgets. How can cities close the gap fairly?

If we want justice, we must help Black families invest in themselves

Even before the pandemic, median white families had literally dozens of times more wealth than median Black or Latinx families.

Eight Solutions to Ensure Economic Recovery Reduces the Racial Wealth Divide.

In just three months, the U.S. added 29 more billionaires while 45.5 million filed for unemployment.

As wealth concentrates, so have charitable dollars. To get donations to frontline nonprofits, Congress must pass an emergency charity stimulus.

U.S. Billionaire Wealth Up $565 billion since March 18, a gain of
over 19 percent.

New research finds that many aspects of private foundations and DAFs are not acceptable to Americans.

Foundations and donors to advised funds ought to be held to new payout standards for a future that requires all hands — and dollars — on deck.

COVID-19 continues to aggravate deeply embedded inequalities. We need bold policy solutions aimed at bridging the racial wealth divide now more than ever.

To unlock billions in charitable resources during this crisis, Congress should double the mandated payout of private foundations and donor-advised funds.

We need an emergency charity stimulus and taxpayers have subsidized one, but the $200 billion in funds remain sidelined.

Congress can help nonprofits come up with an additional $200 billion — without costing taxpayers another dime.

With the right policy actions now, we can exit this pandemic on a pathway to a more decent and equitable society.

While millions of Americans were being thrown out of work by the coronavirus, the super rich saw their wealth increase 10 percent.

As a percentage of wealth, billionaire taxes have fallen 79% since 1980.

As billionaires’ wealth continues to balloon, it’s time for them to pay their fair share.

Billionaire wealth has grown astoundingly over the last few decades — and, for some “pandemic profiteers,” even more dramatically since the COVID-19 crisis.

As we emerge from this pandemic, substantial tax increases are inevitable. Central to the program should be a tax that limits the hoarding of wealth by the billionaire class.