Program on Inequality and the Common Good

And we finally have a nation that’s taking that reality to heart.

For social change, slow and steady may win the race.

But America’s wealthy don’t seem to mind.

Monumental gifts to museums are coinciding with the erosion of arts programs at the nation’s public schools.

The latest economic evidence supports raising taxes on the richest Americans.

Taxes can do more than simply raise revenue.

American taxpayers are increasingly picking up the tab for unpaid corporate taxes.

If the levels of greater income equality of 1968 still prevailed today, the poorest fifth of Marylanders would be earning twice what they take home now.

Here are five lessons for progressives from our first century of income taxes.

While the White House and much of the media spun the hurried late-night move as a victory for the middle class, it was a win paid for with new tax cuts worth hundreds of billions of dollars for America’s wealthiest families.

Eighty years ago, just like today, a fiscal crisis almost totally dominated the nation’s capital.

Recent research debunks some of the most common arguments against raising taxes on the richest Americans.

This commonsense guide to avoiding the fiscal swindle would nearly eliminate the budget deficit while making the United States more equitable, green, and secure.

One billionaire has the wherewithal to totally redirect America’s political discourse.

Yesterday’s ideas about curbing the ultra-rich’s power remain just as relevant as ever.

Members of Congress whose votes favor the 99 percent fared well on Election Day.

We’ll have more economic and climate disasters on Sandy’s scale unless our political systems intervene.

Those job numbers are good for Obama, but don’t say whether the economy is truly getting healthier.

We’re going down the road toward becoming a nation of servants.

The Fix the Debt coalition is using the so-called “fiscal cliff” to push the same old corporate agenda of more tax breaks while shifting the burden on to the rest of us.