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Helicopter Parenting Linked to Economic Inequality?

China and the United States — two nations notorious for their helicopter parenting — just happen to sport two of the world’s deepest economic divides. Coincidence?
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What States Can Do to Reduce Poverty and Inequality Through Tax Policy

State governments have many options for recouping the windfalls large corporations and the wealthy received through the 2017 Republican federal tax law.
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Progressives Should Support Open Borders — With No Apology

Supporting freedom of movement isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s a political winner for the left.
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Answering the Attacks on the Green New Deal

Critics dismiss it as a dream. But that’s precisely what it is. It’s visionary.
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Bernie Sanders' 77 Percent Estate Tax for Billionaires is Not Enough

The tax will raise revenues. But unless a glaring loophole is closed, the corrosive effects on our democracy will continue.
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Organizers Oust Amazon HQ2 from New York

Invest in communities, New Yorkers say, not a labor-busting, tax-avoiding corporation that profits off hate.
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Have the Rich Always Laughed Stiff Tax Rates Away?

Fans of grand fortune want us to believe that the rich have never paid much more of their income in taxes than they do now. History says otherwise.
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The Psychology of the Wall

Walls are cropping up all over the world. But as with guns, the sense of safety and security that comes from a wall is almost entirely illusory.

Reports

  • Arts Event: Next Stop: North Korea

    March 1 @ 8:00 am - March 24 @ 5:00 pm at District of Columbia Arts Center

    John Feffer’s next solo show brings us in-country insights into that shuttered country.

  • Film: Cubanas, Mujeres en Revolución

    March 7 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm at True Reformer Building, Lankford Auditorium

    For International Women's Day 2019 is the DC premeire of a new film about the continuous role of women in the Revolution, both in the guerrilla struggle and in the construction of the new Cuban society, portrayed through the testimonies of heroines.

  • What Can Be Done About Inequality? – NYC Event

    March 13 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm at CUNY The Graduate Center

    The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality host two IPS experts with new books bring fresh ideas to the topic, Chuck Collins, author of Is Inequality in America Irreversible? and Sam Pizzigati, author of The Case for a Maximum Wage.

  • Book Event: Timothy A. Wise for Eating Tomorrow

    March 20 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm at Busboys & Poets – 14th & V

    A talk and book signing about the vital issue of "Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food."

  • National Mobilization to Oppose NATO, War, and Racism

    March 30 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm at Lafayette Park, across from the White House

    Join with us in Washington DC or at a demonstration in your area to show, in the strongest possible way, our opposition to NATO’s destructive wars and its racist military policies around the world.

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