Consider the Los Angeles Unified School District. Today, its reserves stand at $6.4 billion, nearly 60 percent of its 2024 ...

The new law slashes vital services to pay for tax cuts for the rich and massive hikes in military and deportation funding.

Cutting taxes for the wealthy and businesses and paying for it with Medicaid cuts will not have a positive impact on growth ...

Trump’s trade policies have been wildly unpredictable in the first two months of his second presidency. Tariff deadlines have come and been delayed with no rhyme or reason, leaving cross-border trade ...

America’s 12 wealthiest now control $1 trillion of wealth. The only way to address this extreme wealth concentration: a tax on accumulated grand fortune.

Discipline and Punish: How Wall Street’s Grip on School Finance Deepens Inequality July 11, 2025 / by Claire Cahen ...

White sand beaches. Yoga retreats. Mayan ruins. The Mexican beach town of Tulum is sold as an eco-chic paradise where you can disconnect from the stresses of modern life. A closer look reveals a dark ...

These interactive charts expose how the Covid-19 pandemic — and failed policy responses — are exacerbating class, race, & gender inequality.

Words of departed champions of greater equity, from Plato and Prince to Kahlo and Keller. “America has more money than any other single country or civilization has ever been able to amass. We have the ...

This week, we released a crucial new report revealing the true cost of billionaire philanthropy to taxpayers, the nonprofit sector, and our society. The report comprehensively details how the ...

Sarah Anderson directs the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies and is a co-editor of Inequality.org. @Anderson_IPS ...

New research shows that raising the top marginal income tax rate could reduce inequality and raise revenue without slowing economic growth ...