The GOP Is Using ‘Tax Reform’ to Gut American Health Care
Tax cuts for the wealthiest 1 percent alone could fund coverage for 12 million Americans.
What Else Could a Tax Cut for the Richest 1% Buy in Your State?
New data from our National Priorities Project shows what’s at stake if America’s richest get a tax cut.
The Best Education Our Money Can Buy
Taxpayers are subsidizing the private universities that service America’s rich.
Trump Benefits From a Broken Tax System
Revelations about Donald Trump’s tax returns — and the probability that he has paid no federal income tax for decades — should spur movements to fix our broken tax system.
Paul Ryan’s “A Better Way” Proposal is Anything But
Predictable as ever, the House Speaker’s plan would give an average annual tax break of nearly $800,000 to the top 0.1 percent.
The Most Important Election of Your Life isn’t This Year
Donald Trump’s campaign has highlighted a division between “America A” and “America B,” but a much more ominous political force could emerge in 2020.
How Unequal is Your City?
A new report let’s you know how much of your community’s income growth is flowing to the one percent – down to state, city, and county.
What Does the One Percent Owe You?
A new interactive website is vividly showing just how much economic inequality is costing you.
Wall Street Bonuses Double Full-time Minimum Wage Worker Earnings
Wall Street bonuses totaled $25 billion in 2015 —double the combined annual earnings of all American full-time minimum wage workers.
Wealthiest One Percent, Come Home!
Extreme wealth inequality and our global ecological crisis are bad for everyone, including the wealthiest one percent.
Estate Tax Wars: Pinocchio on Viagra
With outright lies dominating the estate tax debate on Capitol Hill, two Washington Post columnists have incredibly different takes on the untruths of the anti-tax crowd.
3 Charts That Show Just How Much Wall Street Bonuses Swamp Low-Wage Worker Pay
We’re unfairly rewarding the people whose work we couldn’t do without, such as taking care of the elderly.
Off the Deep End: The Wall Street Bonus Pool and Low-Wage Workers
The financial industry’s 2014 bonuses were double the combined earnings of all Americans who work full-time at the federal minimum wage.