taxes

Poverty is up and guess what? Corporate taxes are down

November 3, 2011 By PW Editorial Board

As the deadline for the Senate super committee draws nearer two new studies highlight what's at stake.

Eurozone chiefs rage at Greek PM, global unions demand Robin Hood tax

November 3, 2011 By Combined Sources

The Greek people and eurozone leaders both seem to be furious at Greece Prime Minister George Papandreou's referendum announcement.

Workers United convention rallies in solidarity with Occupy Chicago

November 1, 2011 By John Bachtell

Saying that it is "time to take our country back and we will, "over 200 delegates to the Midwest Regional Joint Board Convention of Workers United declared their solidarity with Occupy Chicago on Oct. 26.

It’s official: Top 1% doubled their share of nation’s income

October 26, 2011 By John Wojcik

The Congressional Budget Office said in a new report this week what the labor movement and its allies have been saying all along.

Shocking report shows tax break created no jobs

October 18, 2011 By Dan Margolis

The big tax break of 2004 - which the then-sitting Congress and the Bush administration promised would bring jobs and revamp the economy - did little more than stuff $300 billion into the pockets of the...