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Should Taxpayers Subsidize the Pay of College Presidents?
If we can get qualified people to run the Defense Department and Department of Health and Human Services for half this amount, perhaps their school is not the sort …
Tax Dodger Running for Governor in Illinois
If elected governor of Illinois, tax-dodging one-percenter Bruce Rauner may well support legislation to loosen the rules and help other wealthy investors and corporations avoid taxes by parking their …
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Poor Polls and Obama’s Missed Opportunity
What if President Obama had rejected conventional political advice and pushed for a new New Deal? What if an effective nonaligned left had pushed for such a program, economist …
Where Does $2 Trillion in Subsidies for the Wealthiest Hide in Plain Sight?
Research shows that government subsidies for the 1 percent are creating greater inequality.
Bill Moyers | Joseph Stiglitz: How Tax Reform Can Save the Middle Class
Joseph E. Stiglitz says that such lucrative loopholes are contributing to America's inequality problem and persistent unemployment rate.
Thomas Piketty and Elizabeth Warren Discuss Why the Rich Get Richer and the Rest Get Shafted
Elizabeth Warren and Thomas Piketty discuss why it is that the rich are getting richer, and everybody else is getting poorer, and most importantly, what we can do to …
The Private Equity Limited Partnership Agreement Release: The Industry’s Snowden Moment
The private equity industry kingpin, KKR, systematically took advantage of its credulous investors.
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Walmart’s Top-to-Bottom Taxpayer Subsidies
Walmart executives get big bonuses as employees and taxpayers suffer.
Walmart’s Executive Bonuses Cost Taxpayers Millions
The study shows that Walmart was able to lower its federal tax payments by $40 million because of lavish pay packages awarded to just one executive — recently retired …
Joseph E. Stiglitz: Let’s Stop Subsidizing Tax Dodgers
A new report by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz suggests that cracking down on corporate tax dodgers could be a cure for inequality.