The Geographic Distribution of Extreme Wealth in the U.S. Excessive concentration of wealth runs counter to our national aspiration for genuine equality of opportunity, and it saps the vitality of…
How the Inflation Reduction Act’s Tax Reforms Can Help Close the Racial Wealth Gap Centuries of discrimination have prevented people of color from building wealth, leaving them economically disadvantaged compared…
Child Tax Credit Expansion Acknowledges There Is More We Can Do for Children “Decades of public policies have built inequities into our economic system, yet some political leaders and public…
On Corporate Tax Avoidance “[A majority of people] recognize this basic unfairness: When you give big companies tax breaks, you’re taking them away from small businesses. The corporate tax reform…
On COVID-19 and Economic Recovery “There will be calls for austerity from politicians who were happy to incur debt to pay for tax cuts but now want to deny necessary…
On the COVID-19 health and economic crisis “The current disaster threatens our health and our economy. Ongoing crises stem from fast-accelerating climate change, skyrocketing inequality, and inadequate federal response to…
We shouldn’t wait for Washington to tax the rich. We can begin at the state level. Examining the federal policy landscape is a logical place to start, but state policymakers…
Americans have long wanted progressive taxes but few, if any, lawmakers publicly backed this view. What’s happening now isn’t a shift in public opinion, rather it’s Washington finally catching up…
The truth is, if lawmakers truly wanted to craft a tax overhaul that would benefit working people most, they would have started from fundamentally different principles and developed policies that…
You’d have to subscribe to the bizarre, Orwellian theory that middle-income people’s economic anxiety will somehow be assuaged by watching the rich grow richer to believe that the pending plan…
“For the better part of the 20th century, the nation’s economic pie grew as did incomes for all Americans. But for the past 40 years, wages for ordinary Americans have…
