As world leaders meet behind closed doors, a People’s Summit of global grassroots activists is showcasing solutions for the ...
The midterm election results in Argentina handed a political victory to Javier Milei’s far-right government of Javier Milei, despite recent economic, financial, and political problems.
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World leaders heading to the G20 summit should use this rare multilateral space to advance a more equitable and sustainable ...
The following is written testimony prepared for a March 17, 2021 Senate Budget Committee hearing on “The Income and Wealth Inequality Crisis in America.” Thank you, Chairman Sanders, Ranking Member ...
The growing movement to crack down on corporations that reward top executives at worker expense. Since 2018, U.S. publicly held corporations have had to annually report the ratio between their CEO and ...
The deep and persistent racial wealth divide will not close without bold, structural reform. It has been created and held in place by public policies that have evolved with time including slavery, Jim ...
The sex-trafficking scandal surrounding the late Jeffrey Epstein already has tarnished the reputations of prominent politicians, businessmen, and the British royal family. Now it’s casting a dark ...
Men dominate the top of the economic summit while women are saddled with higher levels of debt, poverty, and unpaid care work. The global trend towards extreme wealth and income concentration has ...
Income includes the revenue streams from wages, salaries, interest on a savings account, dividends from shares of stock, rent, and profits from selling something for more than you paid for it. Unlike ...
I’ve been a student of inequality for a long time—as a curious child and later as a sociology professor. Eventually, I left academia and came to work at the Insight Center for Community Economic ...
The following is written testimony prepared for a June 12, 2024 Senate Budget Committee hearing on “Making Wall Street Pay Its Fair Share: Raising Revenue, Strengthening Our Economy.” Thank you, ...