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While most heterosexual couples are dual-earners, super rich couples continue to have gender-traditional arrangements in which the man is the sole breadwinner.
Raymond W. Baker says the estimated hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden wealth a decade ago has skyrocketed to trillions today.
Squandering all that money is easier than it seems.
Most of the gains went to the richest Americans, but almost everyone saw an improvement in terms of net wealth.
The 2017 tax cuts put a $10,000 cap on the deduction for state and local taxes. The richest households would see the biggest gains from eliminating or raising the cap.
How much money it takes to attain this status varies according to the size of the nonprofit getting the gift.
You might be surprised to find yourself in the company of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in the world’s richest 1%. This has big implications for planetary survival.
Research suggests Harry and Meghan would be well and truly in their right minds to be sick of royal fame and fortune.
In the face of climate change, the poorest are suffering from the excess emissions of CO₂ linked to the lifestyle of the richest. It is time to act, in the name of climate and social justice.
Democratic lawmakers have offered a number of ways to reverse decades of widening economic inequality. A tax expert gives them a closer look.
An expert explains the many reasons why people behave in an unethical manner and what research shows on why the wealthy have a need to maintain their higher status.
The college admission cheating scandal recently announced by the Department of Justice shows why colleges should admit students via lottery, argues an expert on college admissions.
For a nation in the grips of a housing crisis, you’d expect high-rise developments to be good news – unfortunately not.
London’s super rich are building thousands of subterranean palaces.
When conflicts over whether nonprofits have kept their word about how they said they’d use big gifts crop up, donors rarely get everything they demand as reimbursement.
President Trump released details of his tax plan, which would essentially benefit the wealthiest Americans by repealing the estate tax and other changes at the expense of the middle class.
Why do nonprofit fundraisers juxtapose calls to feed the hungry, house the homeless and cure cancer with champagne toasts?
The wealthy evade taxes and are less likely to donate to charity, but does this mean they’re more selfish than everyone else? New research suggests not.
Cars, clothes, diamonds and jets: it’s time we addressed just how much the wealthy are hurting the planet.
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