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Consider the Los Angeles Unified School District. Today, its reserves stand at $6.4 billion, nearly 60 percent of its 2024 ...
Discipline and Punish: How Wall Street’s Grip on School Finance Deepens Inequality July 11, 2025 / by Claire Cahen ...
Cutting taxes for the wealthy and businesses and paying for it with Medicaid cuts will not have a positive impact on growth ...
The new law slashes vital services to pay for tax cuts for the rich and massive hikes in military and deportation funding.
Increasing state taxes on the wealthy raised revenue without triggering millionaire flight, a new study found.
Republican leaders in Congress have been working feverishly over recent days to renew the rich people-friendly 2017 Trump tax cuts set to expire at this year’s end. Both the House and Senate have now ...
Trump’s trade policies have been wildly unpredictable in the first two months of his second presidency. Tariff deadlines have come and been delayed with no rhyme or reason, leaving cross-border trade ...
A classic coup d’état has guns. Uniformed men run wild seizing government agencies and claiming control over what government does and who government serves. But in our new cyber age, the Yale ...
The cadre of billionaires in top cabinet positions in Donald Trump’s administration is a clear embrace of government by and for the wealthy. The ultra-wealthy have accumulated an unfathomable amount ...
About three score years ago, on a January Sunday afternoon in 1967, some of us gathered in college dorm basement lounges to watch pro football’s historic first “Super Bowl.” A good bit has changed ...