by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 17, 2014 | Blog, Economy
How much income do America’s households take in? How much do they have left after taxes? Do federal taxes leave the nation less or more unequal? Questions don’t get much more basic than these. Or more complicated either. How, for instance, do we define income?...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 10, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Tax Reform
What can we expect Congress to do about America’s staggeringly top-heavy concentration of income and wealth over the next two years? Absolutely nothing. What do Americans want Congress to do about that concentration? A good bit. We know the first answer from the...
by Elizabeth Warren | Nov 9, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
There have been terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Election Days for Democrats before — and Republicans have had a few of those, too. Such days are always followed by plenty of pronouncements about what just changed and what’s going to be different going forward....
by Dave Johnson | Nov 7, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Tax Reform
Washington insiders are saying that one deal Republicans and President Obama think they can make is a deal to let corporations off the hook for taxes they owe if they "bring back" the money the multinational corporations have stashed outside of the country. The deal...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 6, 2014 | Blog, Economy
Call it the Election That Never Was. We've heard a lot of talk about this week's election, but the election we needed is the one we didn't see. The important issues, the issues that affected people's daily lives, were never debated. Voters never heard a genuine...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 5, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
Politics is about delivering for your constituents. Underneath it all, this election was a statement by people against an economy that is not working for them. We've heard the story but here it is again. Most people say the country is still in a recession as far as...
