The GOP plan slashes Medicaid, SNAP, and other core safety net programs to fund tax cuts for billionaires, mass deportation ...

Legislation rapidly moving through Congress, the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” — really a Big Ugly Grift (BUG) — includes a massive tax subsidy for private jet buyers. Instead of corporations ...

Plato identified inequality as a central problem of politics. Inequality, this ancient Greek philosopher warned, undermines ...

Sustainergy has helped retrofit thousands of homes in Cincinnati. I’m more proud of the family-sustaining jobs we’ve created.

I’m a native Oregonian. The central part of the state has been my home for more than a quarter century. It’s where I expected to build my life. It’s also where I fled after a harrowing marriage with a ...

As of June 2025, ICE agents are storming California farms, mom-and-pop restaurants, and Home Depot parking lots — chasing undocumented workers through blueberry fields in chaotic mass sweeps to meet ...

Today, a person who works full-time and earns a minimum wage cannot afford a safe place to live almost anywhere in the country. The federal minimum wage has remained stagnant at $7.25 since 2009, and ...

As the big, ugly GOP budget bill moves through Congress, advocates for a fair economy are hitting the road. Two organizations — Fair Share America and Unrig Our Economy — are bringing experts and ...

The following is written testimony prepared for a March 17, 2021 Senate Budget Committee hearing on “The Income and Wealth Inequality Crisis in America.”. Thank you, Chairman Sanders, Ranking Member ...

In 1942, then-president Franklin Roosevelt proposed a 100 percent tax rate on income over $25,000, the equivalent of about $484,000 today. Congress wouldn’t go along with that 100 percent top rate.