Inequality.org @inequality.org · 19hCalifornia's biggest crybabies are throwing their financial might against a tax that'd only take a sliver of their massive wealth. 021
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 28/09/2026Big Tech is getting off the hook for taxes by... investing in their own AI capabilities? 022
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 25/09/2026Wealthy jet setters benefit from public infrastructure without paying for it. Socialism for the rich, barbarism for the rest of us. 032
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 18/09/2026Our energy bills get higher while CEOs line their pockets. 086
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 16/09/2026Tech billionaires don't want their wealth taxed in California. 163
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 15/09/2026Corporate profits are soaring while worker wages stagnate. 064
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 14/09/2026Tech money is flowing into the midterm elections at astounding rates. 035
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 07/09/2026This Labor Day let's get workers their fair share back. 085
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 03/09/2026CEOs are lobbying hard... just not for things that benefit their employees. 085
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 01/09/2026If 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. 067
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 30/08/2026In 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. 041
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 28/08/2026Military 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. 174
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 24/08/2026New @aflcio.org Paywatch data shows that S&P 500 CEOs were paid 312 times as much as average workers in 2025. This figure excludes Tesla CEO Elon Musk's $158 billion pay package. Including Musk, the CEO-to-worker pay gap jumps to an off-the-charts 5,387-to-1. 074
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 19/08/2026The U.S. economy is increasingly relying on the spending power of the wealthy. The top 10 percent now account for nearly half of all consumer spending — up from 43.2 percent in 2020. 036
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 11/08/2026The stock market is booming. Our economic conditions? Not so much. 015
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 10/08/2026As corporate lobbyists and the Trump admin work to block workplace heat protections, more workers are exposed to dangerous heat stress across the world. 042
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 06/08/2026The climate crisis has exposed more and more workers to extreme heat. Regulations need to catch up to the problem. 052
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 03/08/2026The latest UBS Global Wealth Report offers a stark snapshot of global inequality: The richest 1.5 percent of the world's adults now own nearly half of all global wealth. 069
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 30/07/2026Goods that working-class families need to get by will get no such exemption. 083
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 28/07/2026Increasing union density must be the primary objective of the labor movement. 0103
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 27/07/2026Fears of an exodus of wealthy residents from Massachusetts after the implementation of the state's Fair Share tax were overblown, our research has found. inequality.org/article/wher... 054
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 23/07/2026SpaceX's tumbling stock value isn't a problem for the big banks behind its IPO. 014
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 15/07/2026Millionaires jetting between World Cup games has only made this problem worse. 056
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 13/07/2026The bar for joining the ranks of America’s richest has never been higher. 074
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 10/07/2026Trump's coin has made bribing the president easier than ever. 087
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 09/07/2026The richest footballer at the World Cup isn't even in the same wealth stratosphere as Musk. 053
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 03/07/2026This degree of wealth concentration inevitably warps democracy. 1910
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 02/07/2026A worker died during her shift producing Victoria’s Secret apparel at a factory in Sri Lanka last year. Organizers with @globallaborjustice.bsky.social are fighting to make sure that never happens again. Sign their letter here: globallaborjustice.org/news/letter-... 197
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 01/07/2026The absurd resources dedicated to Trump's passion projects should be spent elsewhere. 074
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 28/06/2026This era of wealth concentration is even more gilded than the last. 620696
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 26/06/2026The average American takes just over 1 plane flight a year. 055
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 25/06/2026The US-Israeli war on Iran has been a boon for the capitalist class. 086
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 22/06/2026Corporations would rather spend 1.7 billion dollars than let their workers unionize. 0137
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 18/06/2026Elon Musk’s wealth now roughly amounts, in today’s dollars, to 175 times the net worth of the richest American back in 1982. 145
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 13/06/2026Wages and productivity have decoupled since 1970, leaving workers with a smaller and smaller piece of the American pie. 074
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 12/06/2026The mind-boggling absurdity of Musk's trillion-dollar fortune. 069
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 12/06/2026This World Cup is prohibitively expensive for working-class families. 074
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 05/06/2026In 1990, every single one of the top 20 charities in the US was an operating charity — groups directly carrying out charitable work. Today, the landscape is dramatically different. Want to see what this chart looks like now? 132
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 04/06/2026Wealthy, out-of-state investors play a major role in pushing Hawaii real estate prices sky-high. And the U.S. military’s massive presence in the state is pumping up that pressure on prices, forcing many local residents to move elsewhere. via @ocampomar.bsky.social inequality.org/article/us-m... 064
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 04/06/2026Here's how the sports betting kingpins will make it even easier to rip people off 046
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 02/06/2026Should billionaires pay more taxes? You can probably guess which side our co-editor @chuck77.bsky.social takes in this debate. His civil sparring with someone from @cato.org actually makes for a really educational exchange. Studio 2 from WHYY www.youtube.com/live/1ZpXvRk... 043
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 27/05/2026Billionaires are tipping the scales of democracy in San Francisco, but that isn't enough to guarantee a win. 045
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 24/05/2026Billionaire spending on elections has skyrocketed since 2010's Citizens United decision. Thankfully, last week Hawaii became the first state to pass a law directly challenging that disastrous Supreme Court ruling. 16023
Inequality.org @inequality.org · 21/05/2026Workers organizing at Waffle House are fighting for an hourly wage hike to $25, which could set a precedent for employers across the South. 0166