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Wealth Inequality
CEO Pay Has Grown by 1,460 Percent Since 1978, as Workers’ Wages Stagnate
Worker pay has only grown by 18 percent over the same period.
“Billionaires Cannot Have It All” – Sanders Calls for Redistribution of Wealth
“You want to restore democracy? Have a government that works for ordinary people,” he said.
Nobel Laureate Calls for Ending Intellectual Property Rules for COVID Vaccines
Wealthy nations "have the resources to narrow the great vaccine gap, if they want to," Muhammad Yunus wrote.
Majority of Corporations Don’t Pay State Income Taxes in at Least 7 States
Between 60 and 90 percent of corporations in seven states paid zero state corporate income taxes between 2015 and 2019.
Tax Cuts and Voter Suppression Laws Are Working Together to Lock in Plutocracy
State lawmakers are moving hard and fast to keep their wealthy backers wealthy.
Vaccine Profits Minted 9 New Billionaires While Vaccine Apartheid Drove Omicron
The super-rich have prolonged the pandemic as 99 percent of the world's people have seen their incomes drop.
World’s 10 Richest Men Doubled Their Wealth as Many Lost All During Pandemic
Growing wealth inequality “is not by chance, but choice,” Oxfam authors wrote.
Wealth Inequality Is Fueling the Climate Emergency
"Equity has to be a key part of our responses" to the climate crisis, says climate scientist Kevin Anderson.
US Could Fund Vaccines for Whole World by Taxing Billionaires’ COVID-Era Profits
The tax would raise $5.4 trillion in revenue and still leave the world’s billionaires about $55 billion richer.
Billionaires’ Pandemic Profits Alone Could Pay for Most of Infrastructure Plan
American billionaires’ collective wealth has grown by 55 percent to a whopping $4.56 trillion during the pandemic.