Meet the Low-Wage 100
At the 100 largest low-wage corporations, CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared since 2019 while median worker pay has lagged behind U.S. inflation.
How City-Owned Grocery Stores Can Tackle Food Insecurity
As private grocers abandon low-income neighborhoods, Zohran Mamdani’s public ownership proposal offers a solution to market failures.
A Textbook Case of How Tax Policy Fuels Obscene Wealth Accumulation
Jeff Bezos is paying only peanuts in tax on the profits he’s making selling off his Amazon shares.
The ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Subsidize the Billionaire Private Jet Class
A new study finds that the U.S. is the largest source of private jet emissions.
The Chris Hedges Report: Why You Should Hate the Rich Even More (w/ Rob Larson)
The rich are severed from the rest of us — materially through gated communities and jets, and psychologically through the bubbles they exist within.
Portland Spent $1.3 Billion to Improve the Lives and Safety of Its Homeless People. Then Deaths Quadrupled.
The city responded to an increase in homeless deaths by intensifying encampment sweeps and adding emergency shelter at the expense of permanent housing. Experts say this has perpetuated the problem.
Criminalizing Homelessness Doesn’t Work. Housing People Does
A year after the Supreme Court greenlit crackdowns on people living without shelter, homelessness has only gotten worse.
No Tax on Tips: Too Taxing for Dems
How did Cruz, of all people, take this issue away from the Democrats, the once so-called party of the working class?
Six Ways Trump’s Budget Will Hurt Rural America
Republicans in Congress are jamming through a sweeping bill to fund handouts to the rich — at the cost of jobs, health care, and food in rural America.
Increased Pass-Through Business Tax Break Would Worsen Inequality Without Boosting Growth
The House plan would disproportionately benefit top earners and sacrifice significant federal revenue — without increasing GDP.
Wage Stagnation Has Made ‘Minimal Quality of Life’ Out of Reach for Most in US
New research finds the cost of maintaining a “dignified” life in the US has doubled since 2001.
How Did Farmers Respond When the Trump Administration Suddenly Stopped Paying Them to Help Feed Needy Californians?
By George B. Sanchéz-Tello / Capital & Main Every year brings its own unique challenges for California farmers: water shortages, fires, finding laborers to do the work, bureaucrats in Sacramento…
New Messaging Shows Promising Results in Persuading Americans to Support Taxing the Rich
New research suggests a different approach is needed to convince persuadable supporters of progressive taxation.
The Independent Report on DAFs
Demystifying donor-advised funds and their impacts on charitable giving, fair taxation, and our democracy itself.
Fake ‘Populism’: How Trump’s Billionaire Admin Serves the Rich, and Hurts Everyone Else
Donald Trump is portrayed as a “populist” committed to average working-class people, but his policies benefit wealthy elites at the expense of everyone else. His administration includes 13 billionaires —…