Center for American Progress

Join the conversation on Twitter using #StatesideChat and #RebuildWithUs. Across the country, small cities are struggling to find adequate funding to replace and rebuild their critical infrastructure. The president has proposed the American Jobs Plan to rebuild the United States’ infrastructure and create millions of jobs. As the U.S. economy continues to recover from this historic pandemic, now is the […]

Wealth inequality has soared to unprecedented levels in the United States, brought on in part by the tax code’s excessively favorable treatment of income from wealth. A striking report from ProPublica released earlier this month exposed that some of the country’s wealthiest billionaires are paying virtually no income tax on their massive accumulation of wealth, while ordinary […]