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I’m one of the many laid-off federal employees who worked to prevent, predict, and repair hurricane damage — and I fear for ...
Increasing state taxes on the wealthy raised revenue without triggering millionaire flight, a new study found.
Unions are more popular than ever and there are 60 million workers ready to join the labor movement. It's past time to organize them.
The prospect of war with Iran is terrifying. Experts predict as many as a million people could die if the current tensions lead to a full-blown war. Millions more would become refugees across the ...
In February, the economist Gabriel Zucman posted an absolutely stunning graphic online that depicts the wealth of America richest 0.00001 percent as a share of our nation’s total household wealth. The ...
This week marks the end of the first 100 days of the second Trump administration. The president campaigned as a champion of working class voters. But straight out of the blocks, his policy choices ...
What is the mission of the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation? Even a quick review of the Tax Foundation’s output makes it perfectly plain: to help make average Americans see the richest among us ...
Several provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) are set to expire at the end of this year, including its cut of the top marginal income tax rate from 39.6 percent to 37 percent.
Union density has been in sharp decline since the 1970s and recently reached a low at 9.9 percent in 2024. Despite a recent uptick in union elections and increased enthusiasm for the labor movement ...
On May Day, we remember the long – and ongoing – struggle for worker’s rights. But there is a part of that story that we seldom acknowledge: the role of young people in the labor movement. Traditional ...