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Millions of Taxpayer Dollars Have Subsidized Project 2025 and Climate Denial

Donors linked to fossil fuels have poured billions of tax-deductible donations into groups that deny climate science.

13.12.2024 4

Truthout

Chuck Collins

Real-Life Scrooges Are Hoarding Charitable Donations in Foundations and Funds

Current rules enable wealthy donors to bank their tax break immediately, but the donated funds may remain sidelined for decades.

05.12.2024 10

Common Dreams

Chuck Collins

How Billionaire Investors Are Disrupting the U.S. Housing Market

The over-focus on expanding housing supply through for-profit development misses a key contributor to the housing crisis: the concentration of wealth...

24.10.2024 9

CounterPunch

Chuck Collins

Meet the Billionaire Investors Behind the US Housing Affordability Crisis

This is not your grandparent’s gentrification, but rather a hyper-gentrification fueled by concentrated wealth driving up land and housing costs,...

23.10.2024 10

Common Dreams

Chuck Collins

801 U.S. billionaires hold a combined $6.22 trillion in wealth

There are now 801 billionaires based in the United States with a combined wealth totaling $6.22 trillion, according to an Institute for Policy Studies...

23.09.2024 8

CounterPunch

Chuck Collins

The Super Rich Are Getting Richer

Despite a decline in the total number of U.S. billionaires, the total wealth of the exclusive nine-figure-club grew by $500 billion over the last five...

18.09.2024 30

Common Dreams

Chuck Collins

Prosecute the Climate Criminals

A new website and project calls for accountability.

22.07.2024 5

Common Dreams

Chuck Collins

Wealth of US Billionaires Hits $5.5 Trillion—Up 88% Since Pandemic Hit

It's been a rough few years for most people around the world—but not these folks.

18.03.2024 10

Common Dreams

Chuck Collins

Love The Music, Taylor Swift, But Please Park that Private Jet – OpEd

I spent a decade, like many parents, chauffeuring pre-teen and teenage girls around to a Taylor Swift soundtrack. I learned every Swift song as it was...

20.02.2024 5

Eurasia Review

Chuck Collins

A Super Bowl Note to Taylor Swift: Love the Music, Park the Private Jet

Congrats, Taylor, for your talent and decades of consistently great songwriting. You deserve all the accolades and rewards. But I have one request...

09.02.2024 6

Common Dreams

Chuck Collins

‘Baby Bonds’ Can Help Democratize the Stock Market, for Real

Innovative programs like these can help bust up the dangerous concentration of wealth at the top of our country’s economic ladder.

19.01.2024 3

Common Dreams

Chuck Collins

The Rich Own Nearly All The Stocks: Here’s How We Level The Playing Field – OpEd

Nearly all stock market wealth in this country is now owned by the super rich. The wealthiest 10 percent hold about 93 percent of all household stock...

18.01.2024 3

Eurasia Review

Chuck Collins

As elites gather in Davos, they can’t ignore that most high-net worth individuals like me want to pay more tax

A full 75% support introducing a 2% wealth tax on billionaires.

17.01.2024 10

Fortune

Chuck Collins

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