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- America’s 50 Largest Inherited-Wealth Dynasties Accelerate Inequality https://ips-dc.org/report-americas-wealth-dynasties-2021/ 32 comments
- Isn’t It Time to Challenge the Growth Paradigm? - Institute for Policy Studies https://ips-dc.org/isnt-it-time-to-challenge-the-growth-paradigm/ 71 comments truereddit
- The corporate pay gaps we see routinely in today’s United States would have been unimaginable just a generation ago https://ips-dc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/report-executive-excess-2021-PDF.pdf 3 comments economics
- The corporate pay gaps we see routinely in today’s United States would have been unimaginable just a generation ago https://ips-dc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/report-executive-excess-2021-PDF.pdf 11 comments economy
- The CEOs at America’s largest low-wage employers are grabbing huge raises while workers and consumers struggle with rising costs. https://ips-dc.org/report-executive-excess-2022/ 52 comments economics
- The CEOs at America’s largest low-wage employers are grabbing huge raises while workers and consumers struggle with rising costs. https://ips-dc.org/report-executive-excess-2022/ 253 comments economy
- Wall Street Bonuses Soar by 20 Percent, Nearly 5 Times the Increase in U.S. Average Weekly Earnings https://ips-dc.org/wall-street-bonuses-soar-by-20-percent-nearly-5-times-the-increase-in-us-average-weekly-earnings/ 105 comments economy
- U.S. Billionaire Wealth Surged by 70 Percent, or $2.1 Trillion, During Pandemic. They’re Now Worth a Combined $5 Trillion. Sen. Wyden’s Billionaires Income Tax Tapping Those Huge Returns Could Raise Big Revenue to Fund President Biden’s Build Back Better Investment Plan. https://ips-dc.org/u-s-billionaire-wealth-surged-by-70-percent-or-2-1-trillion-during-pandemic-theyre-now-worth-a-combined-5-trillion/ 101 comments politics
- To Grow Our Economic Pie, Cut More Equal Slices - Redistributing wealth downward, new calculations suggest, can make societies richer. https://ips-dc.org/to-grow-our-economic-pie-cut-more-equal-slices/ 68 comments economy
- Executive Excess 2021 - Pandemic Pay Plunder: Low-Wage Workers Lost Hours, Jobs, and Lives. Their Employers Bent the Rules — to Pump up CEO Paychecks. https://ips-dc.org/report-executive-excess-2021/ 3 comments economy
- Reopening the Economy Is a Death Sentence for Workers https://ips-dc.org/reopening-the-economy-is-a-death-sentence-for-workers/? 214 comments economy
- Taxes Paid By Billionaires Decreased 79 Percent Since 1980, as Percentage of Their Wealth https://ips-dc.org/taxes-paid-by-billionaires-decreased-79-percent-since-1980-as-percentage-of-their-wealth/? 39 comments economy
- What Did Ilhan Omar Say? Here’s the Full Transcript of Her Response to a Question about Anti-Semitism https://ips-dc.org/what-did-ilhan-omar-say-heres-the-full-transcript-of-her-response-to-a-question-about-anti-semitism/ 32 comments politics
- Corporate Tax Cuts Boost CEO Pay, Not Jobs https://www.ips-dc.org/report-corporate-tax-cuts-boost-ceo-pay-not-jobs/ 24 comments economy
- Would Americans Ever Back a U.S. Military Coup? - IPS http://www.ips-dc.org/americans-ever-back-u-s-military-coup/ 51 comments politics
- Would Americans Ever Back a U.S. Military Coup? - IPS http://www.ips-dc.org/americans-ever-back-u-s-military-coup/ 16 comments worldnews
- Wealthiest 20 people own more wealth than half the American population http://www.ips-dc.org/billionaire-bonanza/ 19 comments economy
- Free Trade Agreements Have Exacerbated a Humanitarian Crisis in Central America http://www.ips-dc.org/free-trade-agreements-exacerbated-humanitarian-crisis-central-america/ 4 comments politics
- Inequality is at the Heart of the Verizon Strike http://www.ips-dc.org/inequality-heart-verizon-strike/ 3 comments politics
- fixing, expanding the estate tax http://www.ips-dc.org/fixing_expanding_the_estate_tax/ 13 comments politics
- Wealthiest 20 people own more wealth than half the American population http://www.ips-dc.org/billionaire-bonanza/ 615 comments politics
- The Poor Get Prison: The Alarming Spread of the Criminalization of Poverty http://www.ips-dc.org/the-poor-get-prison-the-alarming-spread-of-the-criminalization-of-poverty/ 35 comments politics
- Fast Food CEOs Rake in Taxpayer-Subsidized Pay http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/fast-food_ceos_rake_in_taxpayer-subsidized_pay 30 comments politics
- Platinum-Plated Pensions: In the current budget debate, the loudest calls for Social Security cuts are coming from two lobby groups led by CEOs who will never have to worry about their own retirement security http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/platinum_plated_pensions 11 comments politics
- "Fix the Debt" CEOs Enjoy Taxpayer-Subsidized Pay: A new report by IPS and Campaign for America's Future shows that America’s top CEOs are pocketing massive taxpayer subsidies at the same time they’re pushing austerity cutbacks in government programs that benefit ordinary citizens. http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/ceo-tax-subsidized-pay 314 comments politics
- Facing the Threat of the Trans-Pacific Treaty: Damage from 20 years of NAFTA shows us why latest trade deal must be stopped. Free trade creates rich people, poor communities http://www.ips-dc.org/articles/facing_the_threat_of_the_trans-pacific_treaty 6 comments worldnews
- “Fix the Debt” campaign, consisting of CEOs from America's largest companies, argues that cuts to Social Security, Medicare are necessary. These same corporations are contributing to America's retirement insecurity by funneling large sums into CEO retirements while underfunding employee pensions. http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/pension-deficit-disorder 50 comments politics
- Over 200 lbs of nuclear bomb material (in the US, not Iran!) may be missing (only takes 19 lbs to make a warhead). Now the government wants to just bury the rest in a trench. Got a shovel? http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/managing_uranium 3 comments politics
- Radioactive Risks in Japan from Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage http://www.ips-dc.org/blog/radioactive_risks_in_japan_from_spent_nuclear_fuel_storage 3 comments worldnews
- America Is Not Broke: How to pay for the crisis while making the country more equitable, green, and secure from the Institute for Policy Studies http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/america_is_not_broke 6 comments economy
- The Global Super-Rich Stash: Now $25 Trillion - IPS http://www.ips-dc.org/blog/the_global_super-rich_stash_now_25_trillion?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+ips%2Fblog+%28ips+blog%29 3 comments politics
- Facts about US Economic Inequality http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/executive_excess_2011_the_massive_ceo_rewards_for_tax_dodging 294 comments politics
- Institute for Policy Studies: 10 Ways to Bail Out Wall Street (and Main Street) Without Soaking Taxpayers in Debt http://www.ips-dc.org/articles/736 3 comments politics