2024年12月18日 · In dark times like these, shining a light on successful efforts to reverse our country’s extreme inequality is more important than ever. As we looked back on 2024, we actually found plenty to celebrate.

2016年2月15日 · The five largest landowners in America, all white, own more rural land than all of black America combined. This tiny group, a band that would fit comfortably in any mid-size sedan, owns more than nine million acres while all of the African American population combined, over 40 million people, own just eight million acres.

2025年1月5日 · The new year has begun with old news: The world is continuing to become colossally more unequal — with the United States leading the way. In 2024, wealth trackers at Bloomberg have just reported in a year-end review, “the world’s 500 richest people got vastly richer.”. Of the world’s 15 richest individuals, the Bloomberg data …

2025年1月17日 · Three charts show that trans people have higher unemployment and poverty rates and earn less on average than other Americans.

2020年1月3日 · PROMISE: Working families will quickly get a $4,000 to $9,000 raise. Median family income grew by just $514 in 2018 after enactment of the tax law—much slower growth than occurred in each of the last three years under President Obama. The increase in the yearly wage growth rate is up just 0.4 percent over the roughly two …

2024年5月8日 · At a time of staggering inequality, wealthy donors are donating billions to donor-advised funds, charitable giving intermediaries often abbreviated as DAFs.. Donors can claim substantial charitable tax benefits for their contributions to DAFs while still maintaining de facto control over the funds, which is why DAFs now reign supreme at the top of the charity heap.

2019年8月26日 · The New York Times published an editorial comment on its front page in January 2019, provocatively entitled “abolish billionaires.” The editorial raised a serious question: what if instead of being a sign of economic success, billionaires are a sign of economic failure?

2024年3月18日 · Four years ago, the United States entered the Covid-19 pandemic. Forbes published its 34th annual billionaire survey shortly after with data keyed to March 18, 2020. On that day, the United States had 614 billionaires who owned a combined wealth of $2.947 trillion.

2023年11月20日 · Giving Pledgers need to pick up the pace. The report analyzes the progress of the Giving Pledge, founded in 2010 by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, that has inspired over 220 billionaires to pledge to donate half of their wealth during their lifetime.The report found that while a handful of donors are moving funds in a timely manner, most have seen their wealth dramatically increase over the ...

2015年2月11日 · 3. A Global Wealth Tax? In Capital in the Twenty-first Century , Thomas Piketty recommends an international agreement establishing a wealth tax. Under his plan, countries would agree to tax personal assets of all kinds at graduated rates.The skeptics do have a point about whether this particular plan is practical, but we shouldn’t give up on the idea.