Yesterday, Jim Tankersley at the National Journal broke a story that explained why we have been waiting so long to see Nick Hanauer’s excellent TED talk on inequality and taxing the wealthy posted online. Apparently the otherwise terrific “conference of […]
Originally published on NPR.org, April 25, 2012 By Scott Klinger and Sarah Anderson Many American families will have paid more in federal income taxes than some of America’s largest and most profitable corporations. AT&T, Boeing, Citigroup, Duke Energy and Ford collectively […]
As we’ve noted in our Call to Action, progressive tax policy does not exist in a vacuum. We need to keep the big picture in mind and see the links between low tax rates on wealthy Americans and multinational corporations, […]
Wealth for Common Good founder has a new book out, “99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It.” The focus of the worldwide Occupy protests is creating a world that works […]