The 0.1% are worth $28 trillion, or about 15% of the nation’s total wealth. The average wealth for a household in this group is over $200 million.

As world leaders prepare to head to New York for the United Nations General Assembly and Climate Week, Democracy Now! speaks with Amitabh Behar, executive director of Oxfam International. “We live in a very different world from 1945,” when the U.N. was ...

Today’s wealth gap is much bigger, and the country’s richest have much more power than they once did. It’s an Age of Oligarchy

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Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done.Baloney.Economist

President Donald Trump says he plans to give every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections.

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Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done.Baloney.Economist

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The city “is generating enormous wealth, but the vast majority of that prosperity is flowing to those who already have the most,” Comptroller Mark Levine says.

We speak to Richard Wolff, a prominent Marxist economist, about the economic fallout from the war on Iran, which recently reached the six-month mark. “Because it’s only been going on for a few months,...

This Labor Day, a reminder that the USA ranks worse than Russia and China on economic inequality—without immediate change, we all but ensure economic catastrophe

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