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Fortune cites IPS's 2025 Giving Pledge report in a profile of John and Laura Arnold, identifying them as the only billionaire signers in compliance with the pledge's promise to give away at least half their wealth.

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Fortune cites a 2025 IPS report on the Giving Pledge in a profile of billionaire philanthropists John and Laura Arnold, noting they are the only Giving Pledge signers technically in compliance with the promise to give away at least half of one’s wealth — a finding drawn directly from IPS’s research.

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Mongabay covers a new IPS report finding that solar projects in southern Honduras have destroyed old-growth trees, contaminated waterways, and raised electricity prices for nearby communities — while doing little to reduce the country’s dependence on fossil fuels, which still account for over 40% of national electricity generation. “The impact so far is eerily similar to the prevailing development model in Honduras, which concentrates benefits on the rich and externalizes impacts on the poor,” the report states.

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WVUA23 covers a new joint report from IPS and Alabama Arise finding that a $25 million state investment in public transit could unlock $100 million in federal funding, create 2,561 jobs, and generate $207 million in new GDP — while helping close Alabama’s growing workforce shortage.

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Khury Petersen-Smith, co-director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, is quoted in Salon on the long-term trajectory of the US war with Iran, warning that a low-boil, open-ended conflict is the default mode of American military operations. “The U.S. launches a set of military operations that begin with these spectacular large-scale operations,” Petersen-Smith explains, “and then, like in both Afghanistan and Iraq, they declare early victories of certain sorts, but then continue to involve themselves as these ongoing conflicts become much more complicated and the war just becomes really vague.”

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CBS News cites IPS data finding that the nation’s 905 billionaires are now worth a combined $7.8 trillion — an increase of more than 25% in a single year — in a report on California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s push to ban the “buy, borrow, die” tax strategy used by the ultra-wealthy.

Kate Hess Pace, executive director of Hoosier Action and IPS Wallace Rural Organizing Fellow, speaks with The New Republic about the growing grassroots backlash against data centers in rural communities. She highlights how public entities are pushing these unpopular projects through without much public review or community input.

“It did kind of open people’s eyes a little bit to local decision-makers, like, who decided this?”

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Sanho Tree tells The Intercept this would not be the first time the administration had made claims about drug trafficking to justify military operations to curb the flow of drugs in the U.S.

“They’ve applied a war paradigm to an economic problem,” explains Sanho, warning that actions like removing the top command structure of a cartel could in fact continue to exacerbate the exact problems the military are trying to solve.

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Washington State has enacted a historic “millionaire tax” — and more states could soon follow suit.

In These Times takes an in-depth look at how levying higher taxes on the state’s highest-income earners would work, and how the revenue from such a measure could help fund key programs and services that help local communities survive and thrive. The article highlights key findings from an older report by IPS and the State Revenue Alliance that examined the potential impact of such a measure. Two years into passing a similar tax the rich initiative, the report found that Massachusetts ended up having more millionaires, not less, and its cumulative wealth grew by $580 billion, according to the report.

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A news update from Pacifica Network highlights IPS’s analysis regarding estimated Iran war costs and what that money could and should be used to fund instead.

“It should be clear: funding this unjust, unpopular, and illegal war comes directly at the expense of ordinary Americans,” the IPS analysis explains. “Less than a year after the passage of Trump’s signature ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’ which made deep cuts to Medicaid and SNAP — and right in the middle of an affordability crisis — this is the last thing the country needs. That same bill added $150 billion for the Pentagon, pushing the Pentagon budget over $1 trillion for the first time since World War II — and directly enabling the war on Iran.”

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A widely republished CBS MoneyWatch article notes the popularity of state-level tax the rich initiatives as Senator Elizabeth Warren introduces a new bill that would impose a 2 percent tax on ultra-rich Americans making over $50 million, raising trillions in revenue that would help fund programs and services that help ordinary American communities survive and thrive.

While millions of American families face a cost of living crisis, billionaire wealth has continued to soar.

CBS cites an older IPS analysis that examines billionaire wealth concentration and how it has grown since 1989. As of September 2025, IPS’s analysis found, the United States’ 905 billionaires were worth a combined $7.8 trillion.

Thanks to skyrocketing billionaire wealth, Warren’s tax on the ultra-rich would raise an estimated $6.2 trillion over the next decade, double the amount projected back in 2021 when Warren first proposed such a measure.

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