Republicans in Congress are jamming through a sweeping bill to fund handouts to the rich — at the cost of jobs, health care, ...

The House plan would disproportionately benefit top earners and sacrifice significant federal revenue — without increasing ...

Our capital gains effective tax rate shrinks as the gains grow in size and duration, inviting the tax dodge that’s driving ...

Millions of Americans are victims of scams — including me. That’s why we can’t let Trump destroy the agency that fights back.

Increasing taxes on high income earners helped raise revenue without hampering the wealth of the millionaire class in Massachusetts and Washington, according to a new policy brief from the Institute ...

How do inequality and health relate? Increasing evidence from scientists the world over indicates that many health outcomes — everything from life expectancy to infant mortality and obesity — can be ...

How this ongoing tax avoidance strategy is making an oligarchic concentration of America’s wealth ever more inevitable.

The prospect of war with Iran is terrifying. Experts predict as many as a million people could die if the current tensions lead to a full-blown war. Millions more would become refugees across the ...

Amazing things can happen when societies realize they don’t need an awesomely affluent. What sort of amazing things? Take what happened in the United States between 1940 and 1960, as economists ...