Fair Taxation Requires More Brackets at the Top
Some of the most affluent Americans actually pay lower effective tax rates than many middle class Americans.
Where Will We Find the Money?
Schools, housing, hospitals, roads aren’t a match for loopholes for the rich.
Taxes and the Common Good
It’s time to reform our tax system — to quit rewarding obscene wealth, Wall Street gambling, and corporate polluters.
Entrepreneurship by Necessity
The recent growth of black-owned businesses continues the long history of African-American entrepreneurship in response to poverty, high unemployment, and discrimination.
Moving Past the Jobless Recovery
Politicians need to hear from the public that this isn’t the time to cut middle-class jobs.
Squeezing Ordinary Californians and New Yorkers
Governors Cuomo and Brown seem hell-bent on delivering a knockout blow to the mass middle class.
MLK’s Dream in Jeopardy
When we pull together to forge a new and equitable path, change is possible.
Rocky Times Ahead: Are You Ready?
At many crucial moments in our past, small groups have played an essential role in incubating the seeds of great change.
Celebrating Felice Yeskel
Felice was a remarkable trainer and public speaker on issues of class, human liberation and economic justice.
A Lousy New Year for Workers
General Motors executives could claim today that what’s good for their company is good for the country if they were talking about China.
Misdemeanors for the Rich
Instead of stopping to render aid to the man he’d just hit, the money man sped away in his Mercedes Benz.
Not Much to Celebrate with Obama’s Tax Deal
It could spell trouble for Social Security.
Heave Ho
There’s only one small flaw with this whole system.
Obama Tax Deal Further Concentrates Wealth: Stop the Death Spiral to Plutocracy
President Obama’s tax deal fails the moral test by worsening America’s inequality of wealth and power.