The most recent train derailment in Ohio is an example of an industry using “Civil War technology” with railroad companies pocketing tons of cash without re-investing their billions of dollars […]
Lame Duck farm bill to protect migrant workers’ rights
A recent study found that over 80% of the milk produced in Wisconsin was done so with the hands of migrant workers. A bill, the “Farm Workforce Modernization Act“, designed […]
Inequality-Fighting initiatives win big in 2022
Make millionaires pay more taxes? What a concept! But that is exactly what Massachusetts residents voted for in the 2022 mid-term elections — an amendment to their state constitution that […]
To pay for a $3.5B budget, Close the loopholes and end private equity ...
Sarah Anderson, Director of the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies and co-editor of the IPS web site Inequality.org, talks about how the Reconciliation Bill before Congress […]
What does a $3.5 Trillion budget bill bring to the U.S.?
Called by some “the most consequential budget legislation since the New Deal”, the landmark $3.5 trillion budget proposal to be discussed by Congress on their return promises free community college, […]
Inequality.org documents Trump appointee attack on USPS
The Trump appointee as the Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, has been on the hot seat lately, and research performed by Inequality.org has documented his sabotage of the USPS by restricting […]