Program on Inequality and the Common Good

The Contract Buyers League thought they stamped out predatory contracts for deeds, but thanks to private equity firms, these practices targeting low-income communities of color have resurfaced.

As EU negotiators struggle to reach the finish line on a financial transaction tax agreement, 52 industry professionals issue a joint statement in support.

Fortunately for workers, credible research still points to raising the minimum wage as one reliable solution to the scourge of inequality.

An expert explains how shadowy practitioners of financial trickery help facilitate widespread tax evasion — and undermine democratic government.

Making breakthroughs for consumers is hard, companies have found. But making fortunes for CEOs is easy.

Even over 150 years after slavery, black families still lag centuries behind whites in household wealth.

Deep pockets are pushing to place the blame on firms that can’t keep up with the top 5% of companies, and want to see labor rights slashed accordingly.

Modeled after the Civil Rights Era’s citizenship and freedom schools, the new Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership teaches skills for the Trump Era.

The more wealth the super rich pile up, new research details, the more taxes they maneuver to evade.

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But health care costs, not corporate taxes, are the real drain on the U.S. economy.

The “One Rich Guy” who profits would.

Graef Crystal proved that corporations won’t police themselves. Maybe good policies can.

Abandoned by Congress, Portland is putting an end to its staggering CEO-worker pay ratio.

Corporate CEOs are cheering a new White House executive order that lets them keep cheating on the taxpayer dime. But taxpayers may well be wising up.

Instead of helping average working families, Trump’s tax agenda actually targets those already most vulnerable.

The Rockefellers saw their wealth slimmed down by taxes—but it grew back.

The SEC chairman invited America to dump on government regulation. America declined.

A new study points to rising hopelessness as a major driver of the declining health and life expectancy of working class white Americans.

Trump’s budget would make Seattle’s housing crisis worse—so a new campaign is looking to make the city “Trump-proof”.