Omar Ocampo joins Bringing Light into Darkness (BLID) to discuss IPS’ Report: “Extreme Wealth: The Growing Number of People With Extreme Wealth and What an Annual Wealth Tax Could Raise.”
Conservatives weaponized the debt deal to consolidate power. Let’s use the budget to create new power structures.
Washington’s months-long debate over raising the debt ceiling started with some prominent Republicans calling to slash Social Security.
Wealthy countries are angling for access to the resources of poorer countries to power a “clean energy” transition. But this transition is about so much more than that.
A new state tax on the wheeling and dealing of the wealthy is reaping far more revenue than expected
We have the right to know what Exxon officials knew—and when they knew it.
Every year, wealthy donors divert more money into intermediaries, drying up the river of donations meant for working charities. We can change that.
Lawmakers need to advance policies that reduce deficits without undermining expenditures that provide us with a safety net and public services.
FDR put the kibosh on military contractor windfalls during World War II. We could do the same.
The war has cost lives and destroyed the Ukrainian economy. But it has also been a major environmental hazard.
The budget deal struck by the White House and House Republicans could set a damaging precedent.
We’ll never, as a nation, take on the ultra-rich if millions of Americans identify with them.
‘Waste management’ won’t help us confront climate change so long as corporate self-interest rules
If the GOP cared about debt, they’d stop cutting rich people’s taxes and give the Pentagon a haircut. So what’s this really about?
If we take on our rich, we can recreate that success.