This post was guest authored by Tykeisa Nesbitt. At the beginning of the 20th century, African Americans owned at least...
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How Tax Laws Paved The Freeway for Wall Street Giants
This post was guest authored by William Pierre-Louis, Jr. Want to see a classic demonstration of the disparities in how...
Stock buybacks climbing to record highs, again. The SEC wants us to know the details, and so do we.
Recently, we watched corporations spend pandemic relief Paycheck Protection Program funds on stock buybacks, continuing the trend of mostly white...
We want to hear YOUR story for our postal banking campaign!
Has traditional banking not worked for you? Have you ever not had a bank account, and had to rely on...
Pandemic Profiteering: Private Equity Gets Bigger in Every Way
This post was guest authored by Meredith Chaffin. Communities across the United States have faced difficulties at nearly every turn...
The Hidden Racism of the Tax Code: a fireside chat with Dr. Dorothy A. Brown & Dr. Darrick Hamilton
On December 9, the Take on Wall Street campaign of Americans for Financial Reform hosted a virtual fireside chat with...
It’s almost the new year. Let’s make sure private equity barons leave their favorite tax giveaway in 2021
Much like corporate raiders of the 1980s, the massive private equity industry spent the Covid-19 pandemic increasingly expanding their control...
Record Corporate Profits, Record Stock Buybacks & the Plan to Tax Them
This post was authored by Porter McConnell & Mandla Deskins. While Black, white, and Brown working people are struggling to...
NEW SITE: Was our economy designed to be fair?
This post was authored by Ericka Taylor, Popular Education Manager at Take on Wall Street. At Take on Wall Street,...
Yes, DeJoy is still running the Post Office. No, it’s not inevitable.
This post was guest authored by Vanessa Chebli. “Is that guy still running the post office??” actor Henry Winkler tweeted...