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New Poll, Old News: Philanthropy Lobby Is Still Out of Step with Public Opinion...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). A new national Ipsos poll illuminates that there is broad and nonpartisan support for changes in laws governing charitable giving. The March...

Panama Papers trial begins with denials eight years after historic tax evasion exposé

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Eight years after the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists...

NEW: In 2023, the average American’s income taxes funded $5,109 for militarism and its...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). FROM THE NATIONAL PRIORITIES PROJECT AT THE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIESFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPress contacts belowWashington, D.C. – Ahead of Tax Day,...

The Critical Missing Piece from the U.S. Energy Transition

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). At the outset, the United States was blessed with enormous tracts of land (that it stole from the natives) and a...

Corporations That Pay Their Executives More Than Uncle Sam

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). In his State of the Union address, President Biden called out “massive executive pay” and vowed to “make big corporations and...

EU to clamp down on dirty money with new agency based in Germany

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Frankfurt has been chosen to host the European Union’s...

Do High Taxes on Our Rich Make Any Sense?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Home sweet home. For Jeff Bezos, one of our planet’s three richest human beings, the state of Washington neatly fit that description for...

The Next Generation of Students Demanding Justice for Garment Workers

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Yosef Nelson’s work on international labor solidarity began with the case of Hong Seng Knitting, a garment factory in Thailand found...

Who Wants to Be a Trillionaire?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Forbes’ annual list of the 400 richest Americans debuted in 1982 with shipping magnate Daniel Ludwig in the top slot. Ludwig’s wealth, the...

Writing About Yourself Isn’t Inherently Selfish

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). In 2015, the Nobel Prize–winning novelist J. M. Coetzee published a book called The Good Story that he co-authored with a clinical psychologist...

To Trim Our Richest Down to Democratic Size, We Need to Think Big

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). How rich have America’s super rich become? The annual compensation of Steve Schwarzman, the chief exec of the private-equity colossus Blackstone...

New Report from Americans for Tax Fairness and Institute for Policy Studies Reveals 35...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS CONTACTS BELOW Washington, D.C. – Dozens of big profitable corporations paid their top executives more in compensation than they...

Total U.S. Billionaire Wealth: Up 88% over Four Years

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Four years ago, the U.S. entered the Covid-19 pandemic. Forbes published its 34th annual billionaire survey shortly after with data keyed...

Haitian journalist, YouTuber kidnapped by gang members, released

Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). Local journalist Sean Roubens was kidnapped on March 14, 2024, by a gang in Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince...

What Are Donor-Advised Funds and How Do They Work?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Donor-advised funds, a creation of the US tax code, are often described as charitable checking accounts | Roy Rochlin/iStock/Getty Images...

How investment firms shield the ultrawealthy from the IRS

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). In 2015, the U.S. Department of Treasury...

​​About the Swazi Secrets investigation

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Swazi Secrets is a cross-border investigation that reveals Eswatini’s...

How international gold dealers exploited a tiny African kingdom’s economic dream

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Against a backdrop of rolling hills and...

Nueve destacadas organizaciones internacionales piden al fiscal general salvadoreño que retire todos los cargos...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). PARA PUBLICACIÓN INMEDIATA Contactos de prensa debajo Washington, D.C. – Al tiempo del aniversario del asesinato de Monseñor Óscar Romero en El Salvador,...
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Met taps Sotheby’s executive to lead new provenance research team

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has named an...

5 Charts on Our Broken CEO Pay and Corporate Tax Systems

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Want to know just how bad the problems of corporate tax dodging and excessive executive pay have gotten?  In a new report, the...

Last Year, You Spent More Than a Month’s Rent on Pentagon Contractors

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Ever wonder where your taxes go? Each year, the Institute for Policy Studies releases a tax receipt so you can find out.One item...

Crypto firm moved $4.2m of assets to digital wallet linked to alleged Russian arms...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). A U.K. cryptocurrency firm transferred digital assets worth more...
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An ‘anonymous’ company secretly linked to an Indonesian billionaire is destroying Borneo’s rainforests, environmentalists...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Environmentalists investigating the ownership of an Indonesian pulpwood concession...