Program on Inequality and the Common Good

With more workers facing long-term joblessness, the unemployed are working together for change.

What do Beck, Palin, and the NRA have to do with the 1963 March on Washington?

It nests with corporations, squawking for tax breaks, bailouts and military contracts that have little to do with national security.

Why are small businesses paying more in taxes than huge corporations?

Both the United States and South Africa, despite black leadership and multicultural societies, still labor under the legacy of segregation and inequality.

One hundred years after a graduated estate tax was first conceived, Senate progressives are bringing back the proposal.

Senate progressives have introduced a responsible estate tax act.

How can a civilized nation afford to hand the heirs of the super-rich billions of dollars tax-free and not afford to keep teachers in classrooms?

A non-white Miss America winner? Clearly something suspicious is going on.

And a discussion on the racial divide in honor of his 85th birthday.

Building a new economy is tough. One group of neighbors decided to do it together.

The water emergency was a curious gift in water mindfulness for an entire metropolitan area.

Progressives and tea party activists: Where we agree, disagree, and how we can find common good.

A parable to remind of us all the things we take for granted while we’re griping about Tax Day.

There are two tax systems in America today: one for the privileged and one for everyone else.

IPS scholars track how 50 years of tax breaks benefited the wealthiest Americans.

When rich individuals and corporations don’t pay their fair share, the bills get passed to the middle class.

They wanted to limit what today’s conservatives celebrate–the concentration of wealth.

People are forming groups where they can face the reality that we are not going back to a growth economy, that our earth is truly imperiled, and that we must create the new world now.

Why has the financial industry recovered so quickly, when the rest of America is still hurting?