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, […]
How Water Defenders saved the water of El Salvador
“The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed”, co-authored by guest John Cavanagh from the Institute for Policy Studies, is a David & Goliath story of […]
Proposal: Billionaires who made money during the pandemic should pay f...
The top 0.1% of wealthiest people in the U.S. have earned $1.3 Trillion since the start of the pandemic — that’s right, they are making money while millions are struggling. […]
12 Wealthiest Americans have $1 Trillion for the first time
In mid-August, for the first time, the 12 wealthiest individuals’ assets have exceeded $1 Trillion. Jan talks with Omar Ocampo, researcher for the Program on Inequality and the Common Good […]
Anderson: The U.S. Postal Service is in a manufactured crisis
Sarah Anderson, Director of the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies and co-editor of the IPS web site Inequality.org, discusses the manufactured crisis of the bankruptcy of […]
Big Money and the Pandemic — Who’s Profiting from the Crisis?
“Extreme wealth inequality has become America’s pre-existing condition,” writes Chuck Collins in a new co-authored report from the Institute for Policy Studies, “Billionaire Bonanza 2020.” In the past six weeks, […]
