Washington. D.C. May 1, 2023 – On May 1, the Institute for Policy Studies and the Patriotic Millionaires released a critical new report exposing how private jet travel costs ordinary families money and exacerbates the climate crisis. Key highlights include 10 stunning facts about the high-flying private jet industry: “Private jet travel by billionaires and the ultra-wealthy imposes […]
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Karen Dolan: A parents bill of rights for the rest of us
There’s no question that parenting has gotten harder in this country. Gun violence is now the leading killer of children in this country, a brutal fact made clearer with each new school shooting. Child care is out of reach for many parents, while the rising cost of college clouds the future for their kids. For many reasons, […]
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US Billionaires Wealth Surged by 70% During the Pandemic; They Are Now Worth a Combined $5 Trillion
WASHINGTON October 18, 2021 – America’s billionaires have grown $2.1 trillion richer during the pandemic, their collective fortune skyrocketing by 70%—from just short of $3 trillion at the start of the COVID crisis on March 18, 2020, to over $5 trillion on October 15 of this year, according to Forbes data analyzed by Americans for […]
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Report: White Supremacy is the Preexisting Condition
June 22, 2020 – Introduction For months now, a deadly pandemic and deep recession have pummeled the U.S. economy. Yet even as tens of millions of Americans lost their jobs, U.S. billionaires saw their collective wealth increase by leaps and bounds. At the same time, the Movement for Black Lives has drawn attention not just […]
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Report: No Warming, No War: How Militarism Fuels the Climate Crisis – and Vice Versa
April 23, 2020 – In a strange twist, it has taken a global pandemic to significantly reduce the world’s fossil fuel emissions. The COVID-19 pandemic has utterly changed life as we know it — but it’s also laid bare how Washington’s militaristic budget priorities have left the country woefully unprepared for a crisis. With massive shortages in […]
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280 Organizations tell OceanaGold to Abandon Lost Suit Against El Salvador and “Pack Up and Pay Up”
Feb. 21, 2017 – Today, 280 organizations based in five continents sent a statement to the CEO and Board of Canadian-Australian company OceanaGold demanding that it leave El Salvador and pay US$8 million to that government, as demanded by an investor-state tribunal in October. OceanaGold persisted with an outrageous suit against El Salvador, launched by its […]