David Cay Johnston: Here’s how the super rich avoid paying taxes — and what we can do about it
Our investigative series The Koch Papers illustrates many deep problems in America’s creaky, century-old income tax system, especially how our...
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‘Eye-popping’ analysis shows top 1% gained $21 trillion in wealth since 1989 while bottom half lost $900 billion
Adding to the mountain of statistical evidence showing the severity of U.S. inequality, an analysis published Friday found that the top one percent of...
Big Pharma Has Raised The Prices Of 3,400 Drugs So Far This Year
In the first half of 2019, major pharmaceutical companies have raised the price of 3,400 different medications, with several dozen of...
Graphic: The relentless rise of carbon dioxide
Ancient air bubbles trapped in ice enable us to step back in time and see what Earth’s atmosphere, and climate,...
Stopping The Koch Brothers’ Agenda In Arizona
You may recall that a few weeks ago, a Koch brothers’ spokeswoman announced that their network is now willing to...
Climate Crisis Will Force 120 Million People Into Poverty
Climate change is making headlines this summer with record temperatures, devastating floods, and climate-related migration. But in the U.S., mainstream...
Uber founder buys $72.5 million mansion as Uber drivers live in their cars
As rideshare drivers across the U.S. and around the world continue to struggle for decent wages, benefits, and the basic right to...
Park Service Directed To Shift $2.5 Million To Help Pay For Trump’s July 4 Celebration To Himself
The National Park Service will divert about $2.5 million in fees gathered from park-goers to help pay for the hefty...
House Republicans Prove Again They Don’t Want You To Have Health Care
Last week, House Republicans were given yet another opportunity to separate themselves from Donald Trump’s lawsuit to destroy the Affordable...
New York City sues Big Oil
New York’s Mayor, Bill de Blasio, has announced that the city is suing five fossil fuel companies for damages over...
Trump’s Rust Belt Revival Fraud Is Killing Him In Wisconsin, Michigan, And Pennsylvania
Trump promised a manufacturing revival in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, but after losing manufacturing jobs, voters in those states look...
Top one percent gained $21 trillion in wealth since 1989 while bottom half lost $900 billion
Adding to the mountain of statistical evidence showing the severity of U.S. inequality, an analysis published Friday found that the top one percent of...
New York Teachers Fight for Divestment From Prison Industry
Teachers in Rochester, New York, recently discovered, to their horror, that their pensions are invested in the private prison and...
Bosses pocket Trump tax windfall as workers see job promises vanish
Stephen Smith worked at an AT&T call center in Meriden, Connecticut, for over 20 years before the giant telecoms company...
Corporate Media Enable Industry War Against Medicare for All
Opponents of Medicare for All have a difficult task ahead of it heading into the 2020 election: They must convince...
Corporations paid $91 billion less in taxes under GOP tax code overhaul
As the mid-April deadline for filing 2018 tax returns was approaching, accountants and tax preparers had their share of clients who...
Bernie Sanders Went To Walmart’s Shareholder Meeting To Demand A $15 Minimum Wage
Walmart’s shareholder meeting drew some star power on Wednesday, just not the kind the retailer was hoping for. Sen. Bernie...
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez returns to bartending to promote fair wages
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took lunch orders, served pizza and rocked the cocktail shaker on Friday...
Trump’s Golf Has Cost Taxpayers $102 Million
President Donald Trump’s golf habit has cost taxpayers $102 million and counting, HuffPost estimated in a Wednesday report, based on an analysis...
Bernie Sanders Demands That Walmart Raise Poverty Wages
Bernie Sanders, a leading Democratic presidential candidate, is preparing to gatecrash Walmart’s annual meeting to demand the world’s biggest retailer...
Republicans Take $400K From Casino Mogul Accused Of Sexual Assault
The national Republican Party has accepted nearly $400,000 in donations from disgraced ex-casino mogul Steve Wynn — a move that...
Ocasio-Cortez backs CEO into a corner over why he charges Americans $2000 for drug that costs $8 in Australia
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Thursday cornered the CEO of biotech firm Gilead Sciences about why his company charges nearly...
Profligate Preacher Wants to Upgrade to a $54 Million Dollar Jet
Pastor Jesse Duplantis zips around in a Dassault Falcon 50 jet paid for by his church. Inside Edition found him...
Rigged: How US tax law props up people like Donald Trump
The New York Times disclosure that Donald Trump was able “to avoid paying income taxes” for years, while he racked up $1.17 billion...
Former Chief of Staff John Kelly Now Profiting Off of Migrants
The former Trump administration official who first proposed separating migrant children from their parents with the specific intent to deter...
Whistleblowers Shine Light On The Fraud & Corruption In The Pentagon
Via America’s Lawyer: Trial Magazine’s Editor Farron Cousins and Lee Camp, Host of Redacted Tonight discuss the reasons behind why Pentagon has silenced nearly...
Robert Reich: The 12 biggest myths about raising taxes on the rich
Some politicians are calling for higher taxes on the rich. Naturally, these proposals have unleashed a torrent of opposition –...
Clean Tech Jobs Lead Employment Statistics In Twelve US States
Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and projections from the Projections Managing Partnership, Yahoo Finance has charted which jobs...
CBO: More than 1 million people have lost insurance under Trump
The Congressional Budget Office released what would have been a bombshell report Thursday, had not the Mueller report eclipsed it. According...
Republican Tax Scam: Consumers Lost $6 Billion, Big Banks Pocketed $28 Billion
The results are in regarding the Republican Tax Scam, and average American citizens are the big losers. According to the...
Insurance CEO Whines That Medicare For All Would Disrupt His Profits
UnitedHealth Group CEO David Wichmann is warning investors that the healthcare market could come crashing down thanks to the push...
Big Oil Invested More Than $1 Billion On Misleading Climate Lobbying
The globe’s five largest publicly-traded oil and gas majors — ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, BP, and Total — invested...
60 Top Corporations Paid $0 Federal Taxes Under Trump Tax Law
President Donald Trump’s new tax law aided corporations so radically that twice as many companies paid no federal taxes whatsoever in...
Ocasio-Cortez calls out GOP for attacking Green New Deal as ‘socialism’ while bankrolling Big Oil with billions in subsidies
During a House Oversight Committee hearing on Tuesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out Republicans for attacking the Green New Deal...
Robert Reich: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon decries socialism, unless of it’s the banks that need a government bailout
In his annual letter to shareholders, distributed last week, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon took aim at socialism, warning it...
Warren Unveils Bill to Punish Criminal CEOs
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced legislation Wednesday that would make it easier to imprison corporate executives whose companies commit crimes...
Heath Insurance Industry Tries To Buy Off Democrats To Stop Medicare For All
According to a new analysis by Think Progress, healthcare groups are ramping up their spending and giving to Democrats on...
The Republican party is the political arm of the fossil fuel industry
For Republicans, the climate crisis is a joke. On Tuesday in the Senate, Mike Lee, a Republican senator for Utah,...
The Green New Deal is already happening in several cities and states
Last week, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey, along with 66 House representatives and 10 Senators, introduced their highly-laudedGreen New...
Exxon’s Misinformation Campaign To Face Public Scrutiny As Legal Woes Mount
It’s been nearly four years since leaked documents revealed Exxon Mobil Corp. understood that fossil fuel emissions caused the planet...
US Clean Energy Jobs Outnumber Fossil Fuel Jobs Three to One
Last year’s downturn in solar installations put a damper on the clean energy party in the US, but that’s only...
How Medicare for all would drastically lower prescription drug prices
Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s (D-WA) recently introduced Medicare for All Act of 2019 is a powerful and comprehensive plan to make...
$28 Billion in Tax Cuts Last Year Went to Banks
As reports continue to come out from angry American voters saying that their tax refunds are shriveling or that they...
Taxpayers — not Big Pharma — have funded the research behind new drugs
Something odd happened when the Trump administration submitted the original version of its latest pro-corporate budget: Big Pharma didn’t like...
California’s $100 Million 2019 Low Income Solar Program
California’s investor-owned utilities are preparing to spend up to $100 million this year bringing solar to low income buildings, with...
The Trump-GOP Tax Law Continues To Crater As Refunds Plummet By 17 Percent
The Trump-Republican tax scam continued to rear its ugly head for the third straight week as figures released late Friday...
