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Economic PolicyFebruary 18, 2016
Want Debt-Free College? Tax the Rich.
A 1 percent tax on concentrated wealth would erase student debt over a decade and bring the cost of public higher education to zero.
Sarah Anderson, Marc Bayard, John Cavanagh, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati
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CorporationsFebruary 18, 2016
Offshore Tax Havens Are Strangling Local Government
The super-rich have stashed more than $1 trillion overseas. Bringing it home would help restore poor communities.
Sarah Anderson, Marc Bayard, John Cavanagh, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati
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InequalityFebruary 18, 2016
How US Tax Policy Encourages Outrageous CEO Compensation
This loophole will cost the federal treasury an estimated $50 billion over the next decade.
Sarah Anderson, Marc Bayard, John Cavanagh, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati
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ActivismDecember 2, 2013
Swiss Activists: Let’s Cap CEO Pay
An initiative to do just that failed at the ballot box, but gave us all some welcome inspiration.
Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati
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Economic PolicyFebruary 6, 2013
The Great Regression
The decline of the progressive income tax and the rise of inequality.
Sam Pizzigati and Chuck Collins
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Ethical EconomicsDecember 6, 2011
Why Greater Equality Strengthens Society
What US progressives can learn from British efforts to fight inequality.
Sam Pizzigati
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InequalityOctober 26, 2011
OWS Revives the Struggle for Economic Equality
Inspired by struggles overseas and in the past, the protests have brought the wealth gap back to the center of political debate.
Sam Pizzigati
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EconomyFebruary 12, 2009
Pay-Cap Populism
Excessive executive pay endangers our public well-being as surely as any pollutants. Obama's $500,000 pay cap is just a start at fixing the problem.
Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati
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EconomyJanuary 16, 2009
An Epoch Named!
Your submissions to the Name Our Epoch contest were awesome: The Age of Avarice, The Crassical Period, The Bling Bang, The New Steal. And the winner is....
Chuck Collins and Sam Pizzigati
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EconomyJune 11, 2008
Ending Plutocracy: A 12-Step Program
Our forebears struggled to survive in a world dominated by the superrich. Now it's our turn.
Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati