| Nov 14, 2011 | Roundup|UncategorizedIn this week’s OtherWords editorial package, Tom Israel provides a roundup of progressive electoral victories at the ballot box that could serve as a “signpost” for the 2012 elections. Get all this and more in your inbox by subscribing to our weekly...
| Nov 7, 2011 | Economy / BusinessOver a quarter century ago, in 1984, the Washington, D.C.-based Citizens for Tax Justice released its first in-depth report on how much America’s top profitable corporations were actually paying in taxes. America’s top companies, this initial study found,...
| | Roundup|UncategorizedIn this week’s OtherWords editorial package, William A. Collins, Donald Kaul, and Gerald Scorse look at the intersection of wealth and taxes. Scorse proposes a deficit-shrinking end to the gap between the taxes on capital gains and income that would raise more...
| Nov 4, 2011 | UncategorizedTalk about piling on. Bill Gates, the Pope, Michael Moore, the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1,000 parliamentarians, 1,000 economists, the world’s major labor leaders, Occupy Wall Street protesters, Oxfam and other major development groups, thousands of nurses, the...
| Nov 3, 2011 | Economy / BusinessThe world’s second-richest man and a group of American nurses on the frontlines of the Occupy Wall Street protests came to the G20 summit in Cannes, France this week to advocate for the same thing. Bill Gates came because French President Nicolas Sarkozy asked...
