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Economy
Even With a Wealth Tax, Economic Policy Ensures Billionaires Will Exist
Within our current system, we can't limit the voices of the super rich -- but we can amplify the voices of the non-rich.
Billionaires Are Panicking Over the Growing Popularity of a Wealth Tax
Billionaires are scaremongering about market crashes because they don’t like what they see in the presidential primary.
Sanders, Lee and Tlaib Lead Effort to Tax Huge CEO-Worker Pay Gaps
The bill hopes to give firms an incentive to lift up the bottom and bring down the top of their pay scales.
A Trump Tax Break to Help the Poor Went to a Rich GOP Donor’s Superyacht Marina
Wealthy donors lobbied Florida's then-Gov. Rick Scott for the tax break and won it. Poorer communities lost out.
Banks Use Public Credit Backed by Public Funds to Feed Bottom Lines
Some experts believe bankers are depriving small businesses of affordable loans in order to line their own pockets.
Let’s Stop Wall Street Predators From Banking on Displacement
It's time to impose a speculation and vacancy tax on the real estate corporations destroying our neighborhoods.
Thousands Could Be Kicked Out of Privatized Affordable Housing in Los Angeles
Tenants are fighting back against privatized affordable housing and against concepts of capitalist land ownership.
San Francisco’s Unhoused People Speak Out Amid Housing Crisis
City governments have been enforcing increasingly punitive measures that criminalize homelessness.
Latest Data Show Trump’s Most Touted Economic Policies Have Failed US Workers
Unless you are wealthy or a massive corporation, Trump's tax cuts have been a dismal failure.
We Need Publicly Owned Utilities
California’s wildfires and blackouts show the dangers of entrusting our power to for-profit corporations.