Program on Inequality and the Common Good

Reparations need to be part of this discussion, but we should also look at policies that would turn around our regressive economy for all Americans.

The richest among us are preaching the ‘opportunity’ gospel. Don’t fall for it.

Inequality in the U.S. can be reversed, in part, through intentional social programs and tax reform.

The divide is much bigger than most people suppose. It’s also fixable.

Activists, academics, and elected officials gathered in Washington to explain why and how we should raise taxes on the wealthy.

Contrary to Donald Trump’s redbaiting campaign, progressive initiatives such as imposing heavier taxes on the nation’s wealthiest citizens and corporations, establishing a universal health care system and forging ahead with the proposed Green New Deal actually have bipartisan support.

Trump administration toughens work requirements for people struggling the most—and 48% are white men.

Here’s a simple test to determine whether politicians are carrying water for the richest 0.1 percent.

The deep and persistent racial wealth divide will not close without bold, structural reform.

If top U.S. corporations can afford to spend over $5 trillion buying back their own shares of stock, the United States can afford a Green New Deal.

Chuck Collins speaks with Project Twist-It’s Mary O’Hara about narratives that individualize the causes of structural inequality and serve the interests of powerful elites.

Conservatives want you to believe that not having to choose between paying for rent or medicine is Soviet-style tyranny.

How can anyone, especially 30-somethings, afford to live in increasingly expensive cities?

State governments have many options for recouping the windfalls large corporations and the wealthy received through the 2017 Republican federal tax law.

Innovative proposals like tying income tax rates for America’s riches to the minimum wage for America’s poorest could help high tax rates survive over the long haul.

Serious proposals are on the table to address the deepening divide between the uber-rich and the rest of us.

Those rare moments when our political class suddenly starts viewing the nation’s richest through a skeptical lens can help trigger real social change.

Black and Latino unemployment hit historic lows in 2018, but this is not enough to close the enormous gaps in wealth.

Sanders’ new ‘For the 99.8% Act’ is squarely aimed at preventing the children of today’s billionaires from dominating our future democracy, economy, culture and philanthropy

Taxing wealth over $50 million would be an investment in protecting our country from the tyranny of a plutocracy.