Love the Music, Taylor Swift. But Please Park That Private Jet.
February 14, 2024 | The young Swifties I used to shuttle around are now climate advocates. And when it comes to carbon pollution, they need you to sing a new song.
Articles by Chuck Collins
The Rich Own Nearly All Stocks. Here’s How We Level the Playing Field.
January 17, 2024 | The bottom half of Americans now own just 1 percent of household stock market wealth. “Baby bonds” could change that.
MLK Would Have Been 95 This Year. Let’s Make His Dream a Reality.
January 10, 2024 | King’s lifetime saw substantial economic progress for Black Americans, but in our century progress has slowed to a crawl. Here’s how we get it back on track.
We Still Have a Dream
August 23, 2023 | Sixty years after Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, our racial economic divide is vast as ever. But it can still be closed — and quickly.
Cracking Down on Russian Oligarchs Means Cracking Down on U.S. Tax Havens
March 16, 2022 | If the U.S. wants to clamp down on “ill-gotten gains” abroad, the first step is to get our own house in order.
The Simplest, Most Effective, and Popular Way to Fund the Jobs Bill
September 22, 2021 | Even Trump voters like the idea of a modest extra tax on multimillionaires.
You Paid More Taxes Than Donald Trump
September 30, 2020 | There are two tax systems in America: one for you and me, and one for the wealthiest 0.1 percent.
Time for an Emergency Charity Stimulus
May 6, 2020 | Vast private foundations are sitting on over $1 trillion in assets. In this crisis, we need to get that money to frontline nonprofits.