Wealth Inequality

Worker pay has only grown by 18 percent over the same period.

“You want to restore democracy? Have a government that works for ordinary people,” he said.

Wealthy nations "have the resources to narrow the great vaccine gap, if they want to," Muhammad Yunus wrote.

Between 60 and 90 percent of corporations in seven states paid zero state corporate income taxes between 2015 and 2019.

State lawmakers are moving hard and fast to keep their wealthy backers wealthy.

The super-rich have prolonged the pandemic as 99 percent of the world's people have seen their incomes drop.

Growing wealth inequality “is not by chance, but choice,” Oxfam authors wrote.

"Equity has to be a key part of our responses" to the climate crisis, says climate scientist Kevin Anderson.

The tax would raise $5.4 trillion in revenue and still leave the world’s billionaires about $55 billion richer.

American billionaires’ collective wealth has grown by 55 percent to a whopping $4.56 trillion during the pandemic.