Inequality.org | A recent poll found that nearly half of people in the US are having difficulty affording basic necessities like groceries, utility bills, health care, housing, and transportation. A new Institute for Policy Studies report shows that the typical pay at the largest low-wage employers...
IFS | We study the welfare cost of inflation during the 2021–2023 UK inflation surge using household scanner data on fast-moving consumer goods. We develop and implement a non-homothetic, index number-based decomposition of inflation-driven welfare changes into exposure, substitution, and income eff...
CEPR | There have long been concerns that US Supreme Court decisions increasingly favour economic elites. This column analyses 1,782 cases from 1953 to 2022 to examine how justices’ rulings directly shift economic resources between the ‘rich’ and ‘poor’. In the 1950s, Democratic- and Republican-appo...
ITEP | Taking all the policies of President Trump and the Republican majority in Congress into account, all but the richest Americans are paying higher taxes on average in 2026 than they did last year.
Source: Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
Tax Justice Network | The International Chamber of Commerce has published, circulated among delegates, and promoted at a side event a report claiming that the global implementation of withholding taxes under Article 12AA of the UN Model would produce net losses for the global South.
The Tax Justic...
Jung & Naiv | A conversation with Gabriel Zucman about global inequality, taxing billionaires and Gabriel’s proposals for it, the political hurdles and potential countermeasures, the future of capitalism, as well as Gabriel’s academic background.
Source: Jung & Naiv.