Urban Institute
https://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/
Nine Charts About Wealth Inequality in America
Social Progress Imperative
https://www.socialprogress.org
We dream of a world in which people come first. A world where families are safe, healthy and free. Economic development is important, but strong economies alone do not guarantee strong societies. If people lack the most basic human necessities, the building blocks to improve their quality of life, a healthy environment and the opportunity to reach their full potential, a society is failing no matter what the economic numbers say. The Social Progress Index is a new way to define the success of our societies. It is a comprehensive measure of real quality of life, independent of economic indicators. socialprogress.org
Patriotic Millionaires
https://patrioticmillionaires.org
Inequality in America hasn’t been this high since the Gilded Age, when robber barons like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller wielded massive wealth and influence. It’s now so extreme that it threatens the stability of our economy and our democracy.
But all hope is not lost. The good news is that the solutions to the problem are not complicated, and the Patriotic Millionaires have them all.Inequality in America hasn’t been this high since the Gilded Age, when robber barons like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller wielded massive wealth and influence. It’s now so extreme that it threatens the stability of our economy and our democracy.
in America today, lawmakers represent the interests and preferences of their donors and not their average constituents. We need to get big money out of politics and safeguard the right to vote to ensure everyone has their voice heard.
Wealthy Americans like us have rigged the tax code to give ourselves countless handouts, leaving working people paying higher rates than billionaires. We need to build a tax system that puts a check on the extreme inequality that threatens our economy and our democracy.
The Great Economy Project
The goal of the Great Economy Project is to inspire working people – the most powerful constituency group in America – to demand an economy that puts more money in their pockets and gives their family a chance to thrive regardless of what political party is in charge.
Members of the Patriotic Millionaires believe the economy should be judged on whether or not the millions of people working within it can lead happy, prosperous lives, not on how rich it makes a few billionaires or how easy it is for overpaid CEOs to fleece consumers and stiff working people.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
CBPP is a nonpartisan research and policy institute that advances federal and state policies to help build a nation where everyone — regardless of income, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, ZIP code, immigration status, or disability status — has the resources they need to thrive and share in the nation’s prosperity.
We combine rigorous research and analysis, strategic communications, and effective advocacy to shape debates and affect policy, both nationally and in states.
We work closely with a broad set of national, state, and community organizations to design and advance policies that promote economic justice; improve health; broaden opportunity in areas like housing, health care, employment, and education; and lower structural barriers for people of color and others in communities that continue to face systemic barriers to opportunity.
The State Fiscal Project
In state capitals across America, policymakers make decisions every day that shape the lives and futures of working families, people who struggle to get by, and vulnerable children. How state governments invest their resources in schools, health care, child care, and other services can either create opportunity and prosperity for families, individuals, and communities, or hold them back.
Recognizing the importance of state policy, we started extensive work on state budget priorities and low-income programs in the 1990s, as Washington was shifting responsibility for many areas of low-income policy to the states. Since then, we have conducted pioneering work in the states to create their own earned income tax credits, avert devastating spending cuts during the Great Recession, defeat extreme measures to set tight limits on state spending and taxes, analyze the impact of state taxes on economic development, and a host of other issues.
Tax Rates During the Eisenhower Years (1953-60)
Cooperative Maine Business Alliance
https://maine.coop
Maine can create a prosperous, equitable economy where all of us – young and old, new and longstanding – can fulfill our needs and aspirations. Working together, we can create an economy that generates more wealth and security for more Mainers, promotes entrepreneurship and innovation, and roots ownership more deeply in our communities.