Program on Inequality and the Common Good

Secretly owned — and often uninhabited — luxury condos are driving up rents for all Bostonians. What can the city do?

Should cities build new fossil fuel pipelines to power skyscrapers for the super-rich?

From country farmland to big city skyscrapers, absentee billionaires may be hiding wealth in your town — and driving up your cost of living.

A new report shows the boom is not doing enough to address Boston’s acute affordable housing crisis and will accelerate economic inequality in the city.

The middle class is starting to look poor, but the president’s Council of Economic Advisers now argues that not even the poor are poor—all the better to cut programs that serve both groups.

As taxpayers, we need to know whether a donation actually makes it to a charitable cause.

Help us spread the word about our report: Towering Excess: The Perils of The Luxury Real Estate Boom for Bostonians

The Perils of the Luxury Real Estate Boom for Bostonians

The rich are claiming substantial tax benefits through shady donor-advised funds. How are they getting away with it?

GDP is high. Unemployment is low. Why are we still seeing unprecedented levels of economic inequality?

The GOP’s trickle-down economics have never worked for ordinary Americans. Medicare does.

Wealthy donors are hoarding money in shady ‘charity’ accounts in the face of urgent community needs.

Help us spread the word about our latest report, “Warehousing Wealth: Donor-Advised Charity Funds Sequestering Billions in the Face of Growing Inequality”

Donor-Advised Charity Funds Sequestering Billions in the Face of Growing Inequality

Billions are being warehoused in donor-advised funds in the face of urgent social needs.

Tax cuts from the Bush, Obama, and Trump years have left a massive gap in the public coffers. This hurts everyone.

For Main Street small businesses, the benefits of the Tax Act are peanuts. Nearly half of all the savings go to people making over $1 million a year.

Conservatives try to laugh off the idea of capping executive pay – but it’s an idea with a distinguished history.

Any court ruling that limits how effectively unions can bargain on behalf of workers, even mainstream economists recognize, concentrates wealth at our economic summit.

With the estate tax further weakened, is it time to pivot to an inheritance tax?