Josh Hoxie
Josh Hoxie directs the Project on Opportunity and Taxation at the Institute for Policy Studies. Follow him on Twitter: @JoshHoxie
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Views Wednesday, February 06, 2019 How the Age of Billionaires Ends Every month or so there’s a stunning new headline statistic about just how stark our economic divide has become. Understanding that this divide exists is a good start. Appreciating that a deeply unfair and unequal economy is problematic is even better. Actually doing something about it — that’s the... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 15, 2019 Dreams Deferred: How Enriching the 1 Percent Widens the Racial Wealth Divide January 15, 2019, the release date of this report, would have been the 90th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King envisioned a future in which deep racial inequalities were eradicated and he worked tirelessly towards that mission. His tragic assassination occurred while he was organizing... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 11, 2018 No One In The United States Should Be Poor, Period The federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up in nearly 10 years. Yet with a stroke of his pen, Jeff Bezos of Amazon raised the wages of hundreds of thousands of the company’s lowest paid workers. In an age of extreme income inequality, this is leap in the right direction. It’s also a stark reminder of... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 19, 2018 Our Missing $10 Trillion A trillion dollars, a figure with twelve zeros after a one, is by any measure a ton of money. It’s near impossible to comprehend how much a trillion is. So, it’s admittedly hard to comprehend a new report that tallies the combined tax cuts of the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations from the year... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 14, 2018 Just How Rich are the Ultra Rich? Nearly seven years ago — I know, wow — the Occupy Wall Street movement began highlighting the divide between the top 1 percent and the bottom 99 percent. Since then, it’s become common knowledge that income inequality in the United States is high. But there’s more to the story than just numbers... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 11, 2018 Restoring Opportunity: Taxing Wealth to Fund College For All in CA Decades of regressive tax cuts and subsequent budget cuts have undermined the rosy reality of higher education in California. Resulting tuition increases have shifted the cost of college on to students and their parents. Restoring Opportunity: Taxing Wealth to Fund College for All in California... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 02, 2018 Cable TV Ignores Inequality; Here’s How to Get Around It If you saw even a single Bernie Sanders speech during his insurgent 2016 presidential bid, or during his 30 years in public office prior, you know he’s worried about rising economic inequality. The big question he wants to know is, why aren’t you just as worried? The Vermont senator recently... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 07, 2018 While School Secretary Gets $1.50 per Week, Koch Brothers Get $27 Million per Week Love is in the air. Or so the marketers want us to believe, as Valentine’s Day ads sweep the nation into a frenzy of buying flowers, greeting cards, and confections to communicate our affection. Washington is less forthcoming with the adoration, especially for working people. You’re probably tired... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 19, 2018 Apple Avoided $40 Billion in Taxes. Now It Wants a Gold Star? The public relations spin doctors are working overtime at Apple this week. The tech giant just announced that it will pay $38 billion to the U.S. Treasury in taxes brought home from overseas—and “create” some 20,000 new jobs. It pledged to invest $350 billion in the U.S. over the next five years... Read more |
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Views Saturday, January 13, 2018 I Live in a ‘Shithole Country.’ It’s Called the United States It takes a level of pomposity inconceivable to most of us to describe another country as a “shithole.” It’s unfortunately just one more of the obnoxious, racist, and altogether absurd statements we’ve come to expect from President Donald Trump. If the president were to venture beyond the manicured... Read more |