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Feature
How Wall Street Reform Could Give Low-Income Families a Big Boost
Reining in the big banks would reduce risk while generating investment opportunities for everyone else.
Sarah Anderson, Marc Bayard, John Cavanagh, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati
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Inequality Will Not Go Away On Its Own. Here’s How to Close the Gap.
To ensure a future of shared prosperity, we need to rewrite the rules that protect the wealthiest Americans.
Sarah Anderson, Marc Bayard, John Cavanagh, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati
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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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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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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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Retirement Benefits Are Rigged to Favor the Rich
Wealthy CEOs are sheltering too much of their pay. A cap could fund long-term care for all seniors.
Sarah Anderson, Marc Bayard, John Cavanagh, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati
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How the Super-Rich Can Kickstart the Green Economy
A surcharge on luxury consumption would curb emissions and help communities make the jump to clean energy.
Sarah Anderson, Marc Bayard, John Cavanagh, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati
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The Secret to Funding Universal Pre-K Is Buried in the Tax Code
If we closed the capital-gains loophole, we could put every child in America on track for success.
Sarah Anderson, Marc Bayard, John Cavanagh, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati
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Black Workers Matter, Too
A movement linking civil rights with the right to organize would narrow the racial wage gap—and reinvigorate American labor.
Sarah Anderson, Marc Bayard, John Cavanagh, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati
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Flint Is the Predicted Outcome of Michigan’s Long, Dangerous History With ‘Emergency Managers’
For years, I have joined voters, other elected officials, and even courts in warning that the right-wing takeover of local government would end this way.
Rep. John Conyers
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Editorial
Scalia: the Most Influential Justice Without Influence in Supreme Court History
He was on the losing side during much of his tenure, and his theory of originalism never attracted majority support.
David Cole
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Race Best Predicts Whether You Live Near Pollution
Environmental racism extends far beyond Flint.
Bryce Covert
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Column
America Changed. Antonin Scalia Never Did.
When the Supreme Court justice joined the bench, his views were mainstream. What a difference 30 years makes.
Katha Pollitt
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Donald Trump’s Campaign Has Turned Into One Long Hate-In
The candidate demonizes Muslims while pandering to vets.
Laila Lalami
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Books & the Arts
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The Alter Ego of Robert Craft
For many years, the conductor was inseparable from the music and household of Igor Stravinsky.
David Schiff
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The Federal Reserve’s Growing Power
Can the jury-rigged arrangement between the US economy and its governing bodies last?
Timothy Shenk
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Letters
Letters From the March 7, 2016, Issue
Deadly inequality… northern lights… such stuff as dreams are made on… mixed-up priorities…
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