by Resource Generation | Apr 14, 2017 | Movement Moments, Tax Justice
By Ross ChapmanCampaigning for tax justice is a no-brainer when you see the math — which I did recently (and serendipitously in time for tax season and oncoming protests). The effective tax rates for the rich and poor in this country don’t track the real wealth...
by Resource Generation | Apr 14, 2017 | Movement Moments, Tax Justice
By Samantha Waxman Many of the ways that I’ve been thinking and feeling about taxes, wealth, and the recent election crystallized during the recent healthcare debate—the fiasco in which Paul Ryan and Trump tried to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act,...
by Resource Generation | Nov 6, 2014 | Tax Justice
We are all at Resource Generation’s Making Money Make Change conference! Wish you were here. For those of you who had to miss it, here’s a throw back Thursday post for you by our summer intern Maddie Reichman. Beginning in February of this year, RG NY...
by Resource Generation | Oct 24, 2013 | Local Chapter, Tax Justice
The Philadelphia chapter of Resource Generation was recently published in the Non-Profit Quarterly, Philly.com, and Newsworks.org writing about how traditional philanthropy is harming Philly schools. They call for higher taxes on the rich and democratic processes of...
by Resource Generation | Jun 18, 2013 | Resources, Tax Justice, Wealth Redistribution in Action
Special thanks to Mac Liman, who really pushed my thinking on this and also was a superb and frequent editor. One of the first questions we always get asked on the tax team is: why should we fight for higher taxes to go into government funding when the US government...
by Resource Generation | Apr 16, 2013 | RG News, Tax Justice
Dear RG community, Last week the stock market hit record highs–but President Obama still released a budget that would cut Social Security and Medicare by hundreds of billions of dollars. In this context, on Tax Day, we launched RG’s new Tax Justice...