The government's deal with Amazon skips over what could have been a valuable case for regulators and the public.

A new study of voters in the United States and five other countries finds that those on the far right become much more ...

1. The billionaires stick you with their tax bill. By opting out of their tax obligations, the billionaire class is shifting ...

Cutting taxes for the wealthy and businesses and paying for it with Medicaid cuts will not have a positive impact on growth but will deepen the deficit and widen inequality.

New research from the Center for Working-Class Politics shows that economic populists are popular, but the Democratic label ...

The following is written testimony prepared for a March 17, 2021 Senate Budget Committee hearing on “The Income and Wealth Inequality Crisis in America.” Thank you, Chairman Sanders, Ranking Member ...

The GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” passed by the narrowest of margins in Congress and signed into law by President Trump, represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since ...

The following is written testimony prepared for a June 12, 2024 Senate Budget Committee hearing on “Making Wall Street Pay Its Fair Share: Raising Revenue, Strengthening Our Economy.” Thank you, ...

Bob Lord has been an Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow since 2013, based with our Program on Inequality and the Common Good. A veteran attorney, based in Phoenix, Bob has brought a special ...

Once upon a time, here in the United States, we taxed the rich. Significantly. Today, by contrast, we’re actively enhancing their fortunes. Including the biggest personal fortune of them all, the ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, African Americans owned at least 14 million acres of land. By the 21st century, 90 percent of the land had been stolen from them. Now, African Americans only own ...