Program on Inequality and the Common Good

If activists succeed in stopping the Hanscom expansion, it will be the next “shot heard ’round the world” on a warming planet.

Our report estimates that the direct taxpayer subsidy for charitable giving is $111 billion a year.

New analysis details how the ultra-wealthy use charitable giving to avoid taxes and exert influence, while ordinary taxpayers foot the bill.

By flying in private jets, America’s wealthiest engage in an indefensible form of waste on a warming planet: Heir pollution.

Climate justice activists are taking a stand against the expansion of New England’s largest private jet port: Hanscom Field.

Private jet travel is a monumental example of private excess at public expense. Here’s a local case study.

“There are nicer ways to do it. But the nice ways always fail.”

The highest-earning DAF now takes in $11 billion more than the highest-earning working charity.

In our new report, “Still A Dream,” we note progress—alongside some humbling findings about how far we have to go.

Exploring the burgeoning movement to organize the rich for our common good.

60 years after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the racial wealth divide persists.

When charitable intermediaries tout their generosity, reporters should take a closer look.

Commercial DAF sponsors are squirreling away money intended for charities at a greater clip than they’re giving it away.

The industry not only exploits our planet’s precious resources but makes the rest of us subsidize the extravagant lifestyles of the ultra-rich.

The state legislature has blocked the city’s luxury real estate transfer tax for nearly four years.

A proposed tax hike on private jet fuel could raise $1.8 billion a year for sustainable transit.

Most private foundations stick quite closely to their 5 percent payout requirement. And America’s largest are unlikely to give much more than the minimum.

Democrats introduce a bill to hike fuel taxes on private jets and invest the new revenue in public transportation.

The IRS just released two years of long-awaited nonprofit tax filings. We found an enormous jump in DAF-to-DAF giving.

As climate change produces more misery, we will increasingly confront the question asked by Chuck Collins in his new novel: What does moral action look like against such an immoral status quo?