Inequality.org

20 Mar 2025

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The voter turnout gap between the rich and the poor is astonishing.

Billionaires are set to have an outsized impact on the upcoming midterms.

Buybacks benefit no one more than wealthy executives.

inequality.org$55 Billion in Stock Buyback Wealth for Google OligarchsA 1982 SEC rule change has turbocharged America’s extreme wealth concentration, adding $55 billion to the wealth piles of Larry Page and Sergey Brin alone.

For more information, read this piece by Bob Lord and Morris Pearl inequality.org/article/buyb...

inequality.orgNew York Is Getting Richer. Most New Yorkers Aren’t.Data shows that New York City has grown richer since the pandemic, but the gains have flowed overwhelmingly to the top.

New York has seen its wealth grow since the onset of the pandemic. The majority of New Yorkers are not seeing any of those gains, according to a new report by the City Comptroller. inequality.org/article/new-...

Billionaires are trying to buy the midterm elections.

A small bloc of IMF members control a majority voting power on the global body, while the primary victims of its economic policies have little say.

inequality.orgAI Has a Labor ProblemThe World Bank is bullish on AI. Experiences in the gig economy give us good reason to doubt that confidence absent strong regulations.

The World Bank is confident AI will change things for the better. The experience of workers in the gig economy tells us otherwise inequality.org/article/ai-h...

ICE's invasion of the Twin Cities caused lasting economic damage.

The money Intuit saves on taxes is going straight into lobbying against free online filing systems.

America's very richest are breaking away from their fellow 1 percenters.

Debt payments are shackling the working class to jobs they would love to leave.

Analysis of OSHA data on injuries at Amazon robotics facilities by @united4respect.bsky.social confirms what workers have been experiencing — AI-powered tools on the job make them less safe www.fastcompany.com/91541015/exc...

inequality.orgWhen ICE Came to Minnesota, We Were ReadyThe foundations for the mass mobilizations that pushed ICE out of Minnesota were built long before armed agents arrived.

IPS will be giving one of its annual Letelier-Moffit Human Rights awards to Unidos MN later this week. Read their executive director Emilia Gonzalez on how Minnesota was able to stand up to ICE inequality.org/article/when...

ips-dc.orgLetelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards - Institute for Policy StudiesLetelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards

To register for our ceremony on Thursday - where we'll also be honoring La Liga Sindical Obrera Mexicana - visit this link: ips-dc.org/events/letel...

Starbucks Workers United's Lisa Walton explains why we should all be buying coffee elsewhere until the chain comes to the bargaining table. inequality.org/article/its-...

Bezos's obscene wealth is built on underpaid labor!

A tale of two diverging Americas in one image.

California's biggest crybabies are throwing their financial might against a tax that'd only take a sliver of their massive wealth.

Big Tech is getting off the hook for taxes by... investing in their own AI capabilities?

The gender wealth gap is nowhere near closed.

inequality.orgThe World Is Building an IPCC for Inequality. Let's Make It CountGovernments are finally building a panel to measure the wealth gap. That's welcome, but the force closing it was never going to come from experts alone.

We may soon have an IPCC for global inequality. The key to making it work, writes Jenny Ricks, will be working with the movements that made inequality an international issue. inequality.org/article/the-...

Wealthy jet setters benefit from public infrastructure without paying for it. Socialism for the rich, barbarism for the rest of us.

google.comBillionaire Bankrollers: Meet the 22 California Billionaires Opposing the Prop 40 Tax on BillionairesA cadre of anti-tax Californians have seen their personal wealth increase by over 64 percent in the last twenty months.

Who's bankrolling opposition to California's proposed billionaire tax? The answer may surprise you: billionaires. inequality.org/article/the-...

inequality.orgWho Grows the Plants in Our Sacred Spaces?For the largely immigrant workers whose labor brings beauty to our sacred spaces, homes, and public places, speaking out about working conditions can come with the risk of retaliation.

22 Sept

National Farm Worker Ministry leaders are supporting a campaign targeting Costa Farms, the largest US houseplant producer, calling on the company to improve harsh labor conditions at their nurseries and agree to independent monitoring and enforcement. inequality.org/article/who-...

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22 Sept

We all pay the price of luxury travel for the wealthy @taxprivatejets.org @inequality.org @ips-dc.org san.com/cc/private-j...

san.comPrivate jet-setting is booming. But are you helping foot the bill?Private jet travel is booming, but a new report says taxpayers and airline passengers may be paying some of the financial and climate costs.

21 Sept

Want to get paid more? Organize your workplace!

18 Sept

Our energy bills get higher while CEOs line their pockets.

17 Sept

15 years after Occupy Wall Street, a reminder that struggles against inequality have a long legacy. inequality.org/article/15-y...

16 Sept

Tech billionaires don't want their wealth taxed in California.

15 Sept

Corporate profits are soaring while worker wages stagnate.

Institute for Policy Studies

14 Sept

Tech money is flowing into the midterm elections at astounding rates.

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7 Sept

NEW: In 2025, CEOs of low-wage companies made millions underpaying their workers. When those workers faced attacks by ICE, CEOs were silent — or worse, complicit. Workers deserve better. #LaborDay 🧵:

7 Sept

This Labor Day let's get workers their fair share back.

6 Sept

CEO pay goes up; ours doesn't.

4 Sept

Great example of how families are feeling the effects of an economy rigged to favor the rich in their everyday lives.

Patriotic Millionaires@patrioticmillionaires.org

North Carolina schools are closing because of broken AC and record heat. This is what happens when tax cuts for millionaires and corporations are prioritized over funding our schools. Patriotic Millionaires have a solution, tax the rich so we can fund our schools.

inequality.orgInside New Mexico’s Oil and Gas “Sacrifice Zone”: The Fight to Protect Greater ChacoNew Mexico captures hundreds of millions in oil and gas revenue for public services and long-term savings. But communities closest to the wells say they pay a high price for extraction.

4 Sept

New Mexico captures more profits from oil and gas than any other state. Is that deal worth it for its residents, especially ones that live near sites of extraction? inequality.org/article/the-...

3 Sept

CEOs are lobbying hard... just not for things that benefit their employees.

yahoo.comContributor: Corporations with big pay disparities have been silent as ICE detains their workersThe 'Low-Wage 100' companies are also acquiescing as the Trump administration strips workers' healthcare and food stamps to pay for handouts to CEOs and other wealthy people.

2 Sept

Our co-editor @sarahanderson.bsky.social has a blistering op-ed in the @latimes.com denouncing the CEOs of Target, Walmart, DoorDash and other low-wage corporations for looking the other way as ICE goes after their employees. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

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1 Sept

No, you’re not crazy. Your pay isn’t enough. New IPS @inequality.org findings on @msnowreports.bsky.social:

1 Sept

If you exclude Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, the CEO-worker pay gap in America stands at an already obscene 312 to 1. With Musk’s $158 billion payday, the gap rises to an astonishing 5,387 to 1.

inequality.orgCo-op Bookstores Advance Economic Democracy in the Literary SpaceA visit to Bol, the first worked-owned bookstore in Washington, DC.

31 Aug

Bol, DC's first cooperatively-owned bookstore, offers an alternative model for bookselling and popular education for local communities. inequality.org/article/co-o...

30 Aug

In 1980, the average major corporate CEO earned just 42 times as much as the average U.S. worker. In 2025, according to new AFL-CIO Paywatch data, S&P 500 firm CEOs pocketed 312 times as much as average workers.

Military contractors are using stock buybacks to artificially inflate the value of their CEOs' stock-based pay. Senators from both sides of the aisle are pushing a bipartisan proposal to ban this practice.

americansfortaxfairness.orgATF Leads Coalition to Support Bipartisan Effort to Ban Defense Contractor Stock Buybacks - Americans For Tax FairnessToday, Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) and Families Over Billionaires (FOB) released a sign-on letter of 21 organizations in support Section 815 of the FY27 Senate NDAA. This provision would bar…

Details on the bipartisan action: americansfortaxfairness.org/atf-leads-co...

ft.comUS corporate profits surge to record as worker payouts wiltPre-tax earnings hit highest share of national income since aftermath of second world war

“The unfairness of how corporate wealth is distributed is off the charts and people want action to change that,” said @sarahanderson.bsky.social of @ips-dc.org. “I think we could be seeing the beginning of a serious backlash.” www.ft.com/content/6f3a...

inequality.orgHow to Bridge the ‘Diploma Divide’ in the Progressive MovementCollege graduates need to build mutual respect with the whole working class.

College graduates need to reframe their cultural and environmental priorities for the whole working class, argues a new report from the Center for Working Class Politics inequality.org/article/how-...

theguardian.comCEOs earn 614 times more than workers at US’s 100 lowest-paying corporationsAnalysis by Institute for Policy Studies found that between 2019 and 2025, CEO compensation increased 41.4%

27 Aug

"These CEOs are living on a remote economic planet from the one that their employees are living on & it makes it hard for them to fathom what it’s like to worry about putting food on your table or being detained by ICE.” - @sarahanderson.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

fastcompany.comCEOs at these 'low wage' S&P 500 companies enjoy lavish salaries while their workers struggle: reportWhile bosses' pay remains sky high, a new report says companies like Walmart, DoorDash, and Target are turning a blind eye to worker hardships.

27 Aug

Excellent reporting by @ktoussaint.bsky.social of @fastcompany.com on our new @ips-dc.org report on CEO pay and CEO cowardice at the 100 largest low-wage corporations www.fastcompany.com/91596487/sp-...