Tag: Wealth

At least 78,000 dot-mil email addresses and 5,650 dot-gov addresses were stolen from Friends Finder Network. (iStock Photo)

Top Republicans call for probe into ‘egregious’ leak of billionaires’ tax return data

Zach Halaschak · June 10, 2021 12:21 am

George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, attends a conference in Paris, Tuesday, May 29, 2018.

Billionaires calling for higher taxes on wealthy paid little or no income tax, leak reveals

Zach Halaschak · June 9, 2021 5:44 pm

Signage is displayed outside the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. President Donald Trump's top legislative priority took a major step forward as the Senate narrowly approved a budget vehicle for tax cuts -- but sharp divides over an array of non-binding amendments revealed the towering challenge he faces from here.

‘Secret’ tax records of wealthiest Americans leaked to media

Zach Halaschak · June 8, 2021 3:26 pm

Vaccination of children ahead of poor countries a ‘moral catastrophe,’ WHO head says

Nihal Krishan · May 14, 2021 12:00 am

Biden testing Democratic appetite for taxing the wealthy with capital gains proposal

Zach Halaschak · April 29, 2021 7:58 pm

Vice President Joe Biden waves as he concludes his speech about sound financial sector regulation at Georgetown University in Washington, Monday, Dec. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden calls for wealthy to pay ‘fair share’ because ‘trickle-down’ has failed

Nihal Krishan · April 29, 2021 2:42 am

President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress, Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

Biden claims US billionaires made $1 trillion during pandemic — here’s the context

Zach Halaschak · April 29, 2021 2:28 am

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. accompanied by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., right, speaks before signing the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act after it passed in the House on Capitol Hill, Friday, March 27, 2020, in Washington. The $2.2 trillion package will head to head to President Donald Trump for his signature.

Democrats are the party of the wealthy, IRS data shows

Emma Colton · April 26, 2021 2:33 pm

Grace Pai, director of organizing at Chicagoâs Asian Americans Advancing Justice branch, works on her computer in her apartment Thursday, March 18, 2021, in Chicago. Pai and others have been busy working with community members as Asian Americans reel from Tuesdayâs Atlanta-area shootings by a gunman who killed eight people, six of whom were Asian women. âTo think that someone targeted three Asian-owned businesses that were staffed by Asian American women â¦ and didnât have race or gender in mind is just absurd,â Pai said.

What explains the economic success of Asian Americans?

Anthony O'Brien · March 29, 2021 3:14 pm

‘Naively high’: Biden hires economist who has criticized Warren wealth tax estimates

Zach Halaschak · March 16, 2021 3:20 pm

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Big Tech CEOs’ personal wealth booms during the pandemic, up by over $380B

Nihal Krishan · March 15, 2021 11:22 pm

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen speaks at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, Wednesday, July 2, 2014. Yellen said she doesn't see a need for the Fed to start raising interest rates to address the risk that extremely low rates could destabilize the financial system. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Janet Yellen says wealth tax unlikely in tax plan

Tyler Van Dyke · February 22, 2021 4:29 pm