Josh Hoxie
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Report: The Road to Zero Wealth
In this report, we look at the racial wealth divide at the median over the next four and eight years, as well as to 2043, when the country’s population is predicted to become majority non-white. We also look to wealth rather than income to reconsider what it means to be middle class. In finding an ever-accelerating gap, we consider what it means for the American middle class and we explore what… → Read More
‘Deaths of Despair’ Rising for White Working Class
White people in the United States are dying at alarmingly early ages. After decades of lengthening life expectancies, white lifespans are now going the other way. An increasingly unequal economy — alongside steadily declining opportunities for workers without a college degree — may be the cause, two rock-star Princeton economists conclude in their just-released latest research. The two… → Read More
Immigrants Pay More Than Their Fair Share
It’s hip these days to pick on immigrants. From Pennsylvania Avenue to Phoenix, we’ve seen public displays of hostility toward undocumented workers over and over. Hostile politicians especially like to say that migrants are a drain on society. During Donald Trump’s recent speech to Congress, for instance, the president implied that immigrants cost “America’s taxpayers many billions of dollars a… → Read More
Immigrants Pay More Than Their Fair Share
It’s hip these days to pick on immigrants. From Pennsylvania Avenue to Phoenix, we’ve seen public displays of hostility toward undocumented workers over and over. Hostile politicians especially like to say that migrants are a drain on society. During Donald Trump’s recent speech to Congress, for instance, the president implied that immigrants cost “America’s taxpayers many billions of dollars a… → Read More
The White House Budget Proposal Doesn’t Add Up
The political theater that passes for serious policy debate is about to run into an unfortunate reality as Donald Trump’s budget plan comes face to face with its arch-nemesis: arithmetic. It’s impossible to cut taxes, increase spending, and balance the budget. That’s not political bluster. That’s math. Throughout the campaign and since, Trump promised to invest in infrastructure, pass an… → Read More
Blame the Baby Boomers
Bruce Cannon Gibney doesn’t see all baby boomers as sociopaths intent on hording all of the nation’s precious resources for themselves at the expense of everyone else. Just, ya know, most of them. Gibney, a venture capitalist turned author, has just published an explosive attack on the vaulted boomers, those born in the first two decades after World War II, in a Boston Globe piece highlighting… → Read More
What Explains the Racial Wealth Gap?
No myth around around our staggering racial wealth divide may be more entrenched than the notion that black and brown people have less money because they’ve made poor personal decisions. Tom Shapiro, a professor at the Institute on Assets and Social Policy, and his colleagues at Brandeis University teamed up with the New York-based think tank Demos to release a new report that directly takes on… → Read More
Report: Gilded Giving
For media inquires about this report, please contact Chuck Collins chuckcollins7@mac.com or Josh Hoxie Josh@ips-dc.org. Gilded Giving: Top-Heavy Philanthropy in an Age of Extreme Inequality Unprecedented levels of charitable giving in recent years mask a troubling trend. This report shows that charities are increasingly relying on larger and larger donations from smaller numbers of high-income,… → Read More
Without Change, African-American and Latino Families Won’t Match Current Average White Wealth for Centuries
Report Calls for Major Federal Policy Shifts To Address Growing Racial Wealth Divide → Read More
Report: Ever-Growing Gap
Without Change, African-American and Latino Families Won't Match White Wealth for Centuries → Read More
America’s Huge Racial Wealth Gap Is No Accident
For the first time, Democrats are acknowledging America's deep racial wealth gap — Here's how we can start to close it. → Read More
The Latest on the Racial Wealth Gap
New analysis shines spotlight on the growing racial disparity in wealth with up-to-date figures and cutting edge public policy solutions. → Read More
How Will the Candidates Tax the Rich?
Bernie and Hillary have each laid out detailed plans to reduce inequality through reforming the tax code. Here’s where they stand. → Read More
Affluenza: An Outrage in All Its Forms
The tax treatment of the ultra wealthy might be the biggest scandal of all → Read More
Billionaire Bonanza: The Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us
Wealthiest 20 people own more wealth than half the American population → Read More