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Opinion | IRS audits the poor, ignoring wealthy tax dodgers and big corporations

STREET SMART ECONOMICS | Investing in enforcement of tax laws could bring in over a trillion dollars in government revenue In this U.S., the heaviest taxes fall on people with the least income, despite the insults you hear about so-called “makers and take ...

28 Apr 2021 - Mary King
Universal basic income: The check could be in the mail

BOOK REVIEW | ‘Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World’ by Annie Lowrey When Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang introduced his “Freedom Dividend,” a plan to give every adult in ...

26 Jul 2019 - Ashley Archibald
The ultra-rich who give with one hand, take with the other

BOOK REVIEW | ‘Winners Take All, the Elite Charade of Changing the World’ by Anand Giridharadas In 1889, opulent industrialist Andrew Carnegie penned the foundation statement of the modern philanthropic movement. In what was known as “The Gospel of Wealth ...

17 May 2019 - Joe Martin
Prophets of Rage put economic disparity, homelessness center stage

The band – consisting of members of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill – is on tour with a message: Create change To say that Prophets of Rage is political doesn’t quite cover it. When reporters or pundits – from ABC, to Bill Maher, t ...

22 Sep 2016 - Ronald Dudley and Eric Falquero
Sasha Abramsky talks poverty — American style

The title of author Sasha Abramsky’s new book, “The American Way of Poverty,” might sound a bit patronizing to patriotic ears, given that Abramsky was born in Great Britain and attended Oxford University. But living now in his mother’s homeland of America ...

28 Jan 2014 - Jay Thiemeyer
Solidarity in city salaries: Seattle’s new council member ponies up her own paycheck toward the $15 minimum-wage movement

Kshama Sawant took her oath of office Jan. 6 in front of hundreds at Seattle City Hall. She plans to take home an “average worker’s wage” and donate the rest of her $120,000 annual salary to a campaign to create a $15-an-hour minimum wage and other social ...

22 Jan 2014 - Aaron Burkhalter
On holiday

Former economics correspondent Elizabeth Becker looks at the impact of our roving hearts Politically conscious Americans have an ambivalent relationship to tourism. On the one hand, many of us love to travel to foreign countries — if we can afford it. We ...

27 Aug 2013 - Mike Wold