This post was authored by Jessica Church. At Take On Wall Street, we’re excited about the growing consensus among...
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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,...
The House Always Wins if You Own the House: Private Equity Housing Billionaires during COVID-19
This post was guest authored by Madeleine Johnsson Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the nation’s 61 billionaire-landlords saw...
Let’s learn from our history so we can stop repeating it
This spring, we watched the murder of George Floyd in horror, adding another name to the seemingly endless list of...
Remembering Tulsa’s Black Wall Street on Juneteenth
This post was guest authored by Remington Daniel, Americans for Financial Reform Legal Fellow. In 1711, the white citizens of...
How to Prevent Another Wall Street Bailout & Ensure Help Gets to Those Who Need It
Our nation is facing an unprecedented crisis with wide ranging consequences. It is imperative that Congress take the lead as...
TOWS Brief: Wall Street Makes Bank on Trump
On the first anniversary of the Trump administration, the Take on Wall Street coalition catalogs the ways that Wall Street made bank on Trump in 2017.
TOWS Statement: Wall Street Makes Bank on Trump: 2017 in Review
The report includes facts about lobbying spending that hit $2 billion in the last election cycle, and continues unabated, Wall Street executives in the Trump administration and regulatory agencies, tax cut windfalls for the finance industry, and a deregulatory free-for-all. It also includes a case study of how Wells Fargo’s outrageous conduct somehow earned it the distinction of being the biggest winner from the Trump-Republican tax bill.
AFR/TOWS Statement: Unpopular, Harmful Tax Cuts Reward Wall Street Donors
At a time when millions of everyday Americans are struggling with stagnant wages, Republicans decided to use the tax code to reward its contributors. Polls have shown that the Republican tax bill is deeply unpopular. Voters recognize it for what it is: a giant holiday gift to Wall Street and the super rich that the rest of us will be paying off for decades.
TOWS Statement: House Tax Bill a Gift to Wall Street
The Take on Wall Street campaign denounces the passage of a tax bill in the House of Representatives that would give Wall Street and the 1% over $1 trillion in tax breaks while leaving many middle-income Americans paying higher taxes, increasing the public deficit, and leading to deep cuts in important public services.
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