What We Think of That 70% Tax Rate
While we’re at it, let’s have a 100% estate tax and abolish inheritance.
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RG Media Coverage in 2018
Business Insider: Rich millennials with more money than they need or want have found a new way to spend their cash TIME: This Millennial Activist Found Out She Had a Trust Fund Worth Millions. Here’s What She Did With It Colorlines: Op-ed “How This Crazy Rich Asian Fights Wealth Inequality and the Model Minority Myth” New York Post:…
20 Years of Making Money Make Change
We recently celebrated the 20th Anniversary of our Making Money Make Change conference! Making Money Make Change has been a signature part of Resource Generation’s work since our founding back in 1998. The original conference was a joint vision and collaboration between wealthy young people who wanted to get involved in social justice organizing and…
Build *movement* electoral power, not donor electoral power
As activity across the country is ramping up for the November 2018 elections and the social movement organizations that many Resource Generation members are in relationship with step up their civic engagement activity, we’ve been getting a lot of questions about how to apply Resource Generation’s values and social justice philanthropy principles to elections.
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Smash the Cishetpatriarchy: Gender Justice and Resource Generation
When it comes to writing about the intersections of race, class, and sexual violence, every time I get started I realize that there is an overwhelming amount of things to say.
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Resource Generation members on Top Rank podcast!
Talking about being rich kids showing up for wealth redistribution, economic, and racial justice!
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Why Rich People Sharing Their Class Stories in Media Must Address Redistribution
Sharing our class stories as rich people matters only insofar as we address taking action toward the equitable distribution of wealth, land, and power.
Check out our member’s op-ed in the Des Moines Register!
“I was born into wealth, and I benefit from government handouts.”
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About that New York Times piece, “What the Rich Won’t Tell You…”
Young wealthy folks have a place in social justice movements, but it requires being honest about our class and wealth. Don’t be silent.
RG DC Publishes Op-Ed on Taxes and Wealth Inequality
A great piece by our summer intern Maddie Reichman for throw back Thursday on an Op Ed by leaders in the DC Chapter. This spring the DC chapter of Resource Generation worked with other community groups for fair tax policy. There was a proposal for a tax package that included large tax cuts for wealthy…