Category: Inequality
Today, in our Second Even-Glitzier Gilded Age, with a Veblen Moment come round again, his conclusions seem self-evident.
Sen. Wyden demanded that IRS Commissioner Rettig change a system that is “stacked in favor of the wealthy” and “against the most vulnerable.”
IRS priorities seem skewed, since its own studies show that far more revenue is lost through cheating by those higher up the income scale.
Wealthy parents have paid big big bucks -- perfectly legally -- to game college admissions and get their children into prestigious schools for decades.
The rich kid has the means to ensure that members of the next generation have the same opportunity to cheat their way into a top college.
According to one poll after another, most Americans believe that college admissions should be based on merit, rather than wealth or lineage.
Cory Booker’s Marijuana Justice Act, which he reintroduced last week, would rehabilitate the much-maligned plant by removing it from the federal government’s list of proscribed substances. The New Jersey senator’s bill also aims to rehabilitate ...
Reprinted with permission from The American Prospect. When Senator Elizabeth Warren issued a bold plan for universal child care last week, the question some people asked was the usual one: How will she pay for ...
Rarely does a bullying Fox News Channel host get the comeuppance he most deserves -- but it can happen. And it did happen at long last to Tucker Carlson.
Candidates generally avoid talking about new taxes without tying them closely to new programs, and even then they mostly emphasize how limited the taxes will be. But this year three of the Democratic Party’s leading ...
So far, the initiative touted by Ivanka Trump has only $50 million allocated to it from the budget of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The richest 400 Americans have seen their wealth triple since the 1980s, while the wealth of much of the U.S. population has stagnated.
An eight-year campaign to slash the agency’s budget has left it understaffed, hamstrung and operating with archaic equipment. The result: billions less to fund the government. That’s good news for corporations and the wealthy.
If the global economy really is booming, as many politicians claim, why are leaders and their parties around the world continuing to get booted out of office in such a sweeping fashion?
The compromise farm bill stripped out all of Paul Ryan's priorities — so he lied about it to his GOP colleagues.
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