Новые данные Института политических исследований показывают, что, несмотря на пандемию, которая несколько месяцев сдерживала рост экономики, класс американских миллиардеров становится богаче, чем когда-либо, добавив почти 700 миллиардов долларов в свое состояние после общенациональной блокировки в марте.
Если требования протестующих будут выполнены, найдется кто-то еще, кто будет вынужден оплатить счет. Скорее всего, будут облагаться налогами десятки миллионов или сотни миллионов. И они не будут жить во Франции, или в Европейском союзе, или даже где-нибудь рядом с ним.
What if protesters in Paris win, and the French government gives in to all their demands? What if taxes are reduced, wages increased, President Macron steps down? I am not talking only about the fuel tax; attempts to impose it have been already abandoned. I am not talking about an increase of the minimum wage – the government already agreed to
Марксистский аналитик Хорхе Мартин рассматривает причины, ответы и решение нынешнего экономического кризиса в Венесуэле.
The aggravation of the economic crisis is making life unbearable for working people in Venezuela. The destruction of the purchasing power of wages has been combined with the collapse of all basic infrastructure (water, electricity and public transport). Workers in different sectors have started to organize and protest, demanding higher wages; while
Снижение налогов Trump вызвало волну выкупа корпоративных акций, которая может иметь устойчивые рынки акций, но мало что сделала для повышения заработной платы или создания рабочих мест.
WASHINGTON -- Weeks after he was sworn in as president, Donald Trump met with Harley-Davidson executives and union representatives at the White House, to win support for his tax-plan proposal: I think
It’s not a coincidence that while most Americans are struggling, just three individuals—Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett—together own as much wealth as half of the country combined.
Most of the world recognizes May 1—May Day—as International Workers’ Day. Here in one of the few countries that doesn’t, it’s worth pausing to ask how U.S. workers are doing. At an event last December, Fight for $15 organizer Terrence Wise recalled “going to bed at night, ignoring my own stomach’s rumbling, but having to hear my three little
Companies are choosing not to share the wealth, even on the heels of the massive corporate welfare program that is the new tax law.
The Congressional Budget Office has just released the latest iteration of its U.S. household income distribution series, and this new research rates as the nonpartisan agency’s most comprehensive yet.
Back in the 1980s, the decade that saw researchers start detailing America’s increasing concentration of income and wealth, flacks for the emerging Reagan economic order disdainfully dismissed the significance of the alarming new data. The United States isn’t getting more unequal, the Reaganites pronounced, and the middle class
