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A year after the Supreme Court greenlit crackdowns on people living without shelter, homelessness has only gotten worse.
They call it resilience. We call it survival. But what we’re really doing is building something else entirely. Something they ...
Last October, after months of hard work, we announced that we were forming a union with the Teamsters. It was exhilarating ...
House Republicans’ tax plan would expand a tax break in the 2017 tax reform for “pass-through” businesses that has overwhelmingly benefited high earners. “Pass-throughs” are entities structured so ...
Increasing taxes on high income earners helped raise revenue without hampering the wealth of the millionaire class in Massachusetts and Washington, according to a new policy brief from the Institute ...
Several provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) are set to expire at the end of this year, including its cut of the top marginal income tax rate from 39.6 percent to 37 percent.
Republican leaders in Congress have been working feverishly over recent days to renew the rich people-friendly 2017 Trump tax cuts set to expire at this year’s end. Both the House and Senate have now ...
Last year, we looked at the amount of money granted from one national donor-advised fund to another. This year, we have expanded our analysis to look at the money being granted between all ...
A classic coup d’état has guns. Uniformed men run wild seizing government agencies and claiming control over what government does and who government serves. But in our new cyber age, the Yale ...
The cadre of billionaires in top cabinet positions in Donald Trump’s administration is a clear embrace of government by and for the wealthy. The ultra-wealthy have accumulated an unfathomable amount ...
About three score years ago, on a January Sunday afternoon in 1967, some of us gathered in college dorm basement lounges to watch pro football’s historic first “Super Bowl.” A good bit has changed ...
The new year has begun with old news: The world is continuing to become colossally more unequal — with the United States leading the way. In 2024, wealth trackers at Bloomberg have just reported in a ...