“A foot in the door” — that’s how Karen Dolan, Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, calls the Biden “Build Back Better Bill” making its way through Congress. Though […]
CBO opens the door to cut $1T from the defense budget
Earlier this month the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new report, “Illustrative Options for National Defense Under a Smaller Defense Budget,” that outlines three different options for cutting funding […]
The Pandora Papers exposes tax havens in the U. S.
The latest release of the “Pandora Papers” is the culmination of review of 600 members of the “International Consortium of Investigative Journalists” of documents released from fourteen international wealth management […]
Digging into the Pandora Papers
What are the Pandora Papers, why do they matter, and what do they reveal? For today’s show, Friday host Esty Dinur digs into this explosive investigation of nearly 12 million […]
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 […]
getting the “uber-rich” to pay their share
The top 7 wealthiest individuals in the U. S. have just accumulated over $1 Trillion between them, and only pay around 2-3% in taxes (vs. 15-18% of “typical” taxpayers), using […]
