Don’t let Koch’s New “End the Divide” Ad Fool You
The only thing Koch’s new campaign is missing is the truth: we need policies aimed at redistributing wealth.
Putting Class Back in Class Warfare
The Other 98% co-founder John Sellers discusses the power of creative resistance.
It Doesn’t Help the Rest of Us When the Wealthy Go Shopping
Inequality apologists want you to believe that when the rich buy expensive new products, we all benefit. But our wallets tell a different story.
Wall Street as a Matter of Life and Death
For New York City AIDS activist Bobby Tolbert, drug profiteering and tax dodging by financial elites is a violation of basic American values.
Tupac Shakur on Inequality, Greed, and Donald Trump
Two decades before Bernie Sanders’ presidential candidacy, the hip-hop artist described the absurdity of inequality in America that continues to get worse today.
Inequality is at the Heart of the Verizon Strike
Tens of thousands of Verizon employees walked off the job to protest the corporate giant that has registered massive profits and lavished extravagant pay on executives while shortchanging workers and customers.
History Shows us we Don’t Need Billionaire Doctors to Make Medical Breakthroughs
Our tax codes incentivize medical entrepreneurs to go for gold while patients are left juggling what’s best for them versus what they can afford.
Food Firms That Prove Worker-Shared Ownership is Smart Business
Chobani CEO transferred partial ownership to his employees so they could build the company and their futures at the same time.
Dozens of Worker Deaths and Six Years Later, Coal Exec Sentenced to Just One Year in Prison
It’s not often that corporate executives are forced to take the perp walk, but does a misdemeanor charge bring justice to the 29 killed in the explosion at Upper Big Branch Mine?
Four Common Tax Confusions
Quick comebacks to the regressive tax rhetoric you hear on the radio and around the dinner table.
Corporate Lobby Pulls Out Old Playbook
National Restaurant Association uses cheap tactics to try to undercut criticism of their anti-worker, anti-consumer agenda.
Rare Wins for Tax Fairness Spark New Life Into the Movement
Congress can only ignore the blatantly dishonest practice of offshore tax evasion for so long.
Why I’m Ready to Get Arrested with Restaurant Workers
Groups like ROC and the hundreds of others that are leading the Democracy Spring and Democracy Awakening mobilizations are working to build the power that can counter corporate lobby groups. Everyone who cares about the state of our democracy should join them.
General Electric to Pay Taxes: The Prank that Cost $3.5 Billion in Market Capitalization
Breaking from decades of aggressive tax avoidance, General Electric announced they will pay taxes in their future hometown…If only.
TurboTax is Lobbying to Make Filing Your Taxes More Difficult
A call to boycott the tax preparation companies spending millions making sure the tax code is overly complex.