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Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal released a new bombshell report on the record-breaking rise in CEO pay. For this week’s Closer Look, we want to highlight some of the report’s biggest… In case you missed it, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its April jobs report last week. For today’s Closer Look, we’d like to highlight both the good news and the… At some point in everyone’s life they’ve been asked the hypothetical question, “So what would you do if you didn’t have to work for a living?” And for most of… Rising inflation continues to dominate headlines at home and around the world. There is simply no getting around the fact that prices for rent, groceries, gas, and other everyday essentials… Nearly everyone is feeling the effects of inflation these days. With an 8.5% inflation rate over the last year, prices are rising in almost every sector of our economy, and… It’s no secret that the world we live in is unequal. We all experience it on one level or another in our lives, and recently the disparity between the billionaire… In its original form, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and its offshoots, including individual retirement accounts (IRAs), was an extraordinary piece of legislation. It created vehicles… Yesterday, Twitter accepted a $44 billion buyout offer from Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and richest man in the world. The buyout will take one of the world’s largest… We hear it all the time: “If you want to pay more in taxes, nothing is stopping you from just cutting a check to the IRS.” Of course, we (or… This past Monday was Tax Day, which is undoubtedly no American’s favorite holiday. But the pain of Tax Day is not shared by all. While the typical American pays a… In case you missed it (and we hope you didn’t), yesterday was Tax Day in America. It was the last day for millions of Americans to file their federal, state,… In case you missed it, Forbes released their 2022 World’s Billionaire List last week. According to their research, there are now 2,668 billionaires around the world who boast a collective wealth of… After a four-decade-long onslaught of anti-union propaganda at the hands of mega-corporations, we are finally beginning to see a resurgence of the American labor movement. Labor unions have historically used… Yesterday, President Biden and the White House unveiled their $5.8 trillion budget request for the 2023 fiscal year. There are many parts of the budget that are garnering headlines, but the most… You’ve heard it from us before, but it still stands to be repeated – while millions of working people’s lives have been devastated by the last two years, the richest…We need to tackle excessive CEO pay and wealth
Want to keep workers around? Pay them more
Why I Am A Patriotic Millionaire: Jeff Huggett
Corporations are bragging about inflation price-gouging
Facing Inflation, Congress Must Raise the Minimum Wage
Workers vs. Billionaires
Secure Act 2.0: Further Bastardization of Good Legislation to Benefit the Rich
Musk’s Twitter buyout is all about billionaire power
Systematic Change Takes More Than Individual Action
Why Billionaires Don’t Stress About Tax Day
This Tax Day, It’s All About Billionaires
So who are the wealthy in America, anyway?
The New Generation Labor Movement
Manchin needs to get behind the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax
Billionaire Wealth is Better Than Ever
I don’t want to add to my personal net worth at the expense of my fellow Americans. I can pay more, I should pay more, and I reject the false concept that we wealthy Americans are the job creators who will leave the country with our money if we’re asked to pay our fair share. —Karen Stewart, Patriotic Millionaire and Angel Investor
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