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Marc Bayard
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Marc Bayard is the director of the Black Worker Initiative and the coauthor, with Kimberly Freeman Brown, of the recent report “And Still I Rise: Black Women Labor Leaders’ Voices, Power, and Promise.”
To ensure a future of shared prosperity, we need to rewrite the rules that protect the wealthiest Americans.
Reining in the big banks would reduce risk while generating investment opportunities for everyone else.
If we closed the capital-gains loophole, we could put every child in America on track for success.
A movement linking civil rights with the right to organize would narrow the racial wage gap—and reinvigorate American labor.
A surcharge on luxury consumption would curb emissions and help communities make the jump to clean energy.
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Wealthy CEOs are sheltering too much of their pay. A cap could fund long-term care for all seniors.
A 1 percent tax on concentrated wealth would erase student debt over a decade and bring the cost of public higher education to zero.
The super-rich have stashed more than $1 trillion overseas. Bringing it home would help restore poor communities.
This loophole will cost the federal treasury an estimated $50 billion over the next decade.
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