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CWA’s Shelton urges action to stop GOP tax hike on workers

October 27, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg

“Once we make this clear and cut through their nonsense, we will win on this."

Top CEOs took home 271 times more than the typical worker in 2016

July 20, 2017 By Economic Policy Institute

If CEOs earned less or were taxed more, there would be no adverse impact on output or employment.

Liberal election victory in Canada holds lessons for Americans

October 26, 2015 By C.J. Atkins

Liberals campaigned on making investments in infrastructure to create jobs, raise income taxes on the richest Canadians to fund services for those at the bottom, and democratize the political system.

Today in history: On April 15 the tax man cometh

April 15, 2015 By Special to People’s World

In 1894, the Wilson-Gorman tariff imposed the first peacetime income tax of 2 percent on income over $4000, affecting fewer than one in ten households at that time.

Year-end legislative rush may produce little for workers

December 11, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Congress' year-end rush to approve a massive spending bill for the rest of fiscal 2015, and to extend a hodge-podge of special tax breaks, may produce little for workers.