Middle Class Fantasy
Median family income is sliding, the social safety net is tattered, and only the top 5 percent are making any real monetary headway.
China’s Missing Middle Class
Because of outsourcing, inequality is ballooning in both the United States and China.
America’s Real Job Creators are Broke
Despite the GOP’s ideological claptrap about corporate executives being “job creators,” it’s ordinary Americans who actually create jobs.
Moving Past the Jobless Recovery
Politicians need to hear from the public that this isn’t the time to cut middle-class jobs.
Joe Sixpackus
The middle-class became extinct after that merger between corporate America and Communist China.
Squeezing Ordinary Californians and New Yorkers
Governors Cuomo and Brown seem hell-bent on delivering a knockout blow to the mass middle class.
The Small Business Case for Ending Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
If Congress wants to help small businesses, they shouldn’t spend $700 billion over the next decade in poorly targeted tax cuts.
CEO Pay More Than Doubled Last Year
Sarah Anderson goes on Fox 5 DC to discuss the new Executive Excess report.
The Other 95 Percent
Nearly all Americans got a tax cut but don’t know it.
Shifting Responsibility
IPS scholars track how 50 years of tax breaks benefited the wealthiest Americans.
Reverse the Tax Shift
When rich individuals and corporations don’t pay their fair share, the bills get passed to the middle class.