Reports

Report by Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies Whether measured over 13 months or 31 years, the growth of U.S. billionaire wealth is both astounding and troubling based on Forbes data as of April 12, 2021. Billionaire wealth growth has perversely accelerated over the 13 months of global pandemic. But the piling […]

For the past year, Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) have tracked the wealth growth of America’s billionaires since March 18, 2020, the rough beginning of the pandemic. This report summarizes the extraordinary growth in wealth of those now 657 billionaires based on real-time data from Forbes on March […]

As Presidential Address Marks Grim Coronavirus Anniversary, America’s Wealthiest 657 Stand $1.3 Trillion Richer Than They Were Last March One year, 530,000 deaths, 29 million cases, and 78 million lost jobs into the COVID-19 crisis, America’s billionaires have made so much money they could fund two-thirds of President Biden’s American Rescue Plan (ARP) just with […]

Ten-Year Revenue Total Would Be $1.4 Trillion Even as Billionaire Wealth Continued to Grow  America’s billionaires would owe a total of about $114 billion in wealth tax for 2020 if the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act introduced today by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) had been in effect last year, […]

664 Richest Americans Now Worth a Collective $4.2 Trillion, Up 44% Since COVID Shutdowns Began in March 2020 American billionaires continued their alternative experience of the coronavirus crisis as their total wealth shot past $4.2 trillion in February—up $1.3 trillion, or 44%, since the pandemic recession began 11 months ago. Billionaires reaped their bonanza even as […]

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In Midst of Pandemic That Devastated Society, Including Sports, Total Wealth of 64 Billionaire Sports Barons Shot Up By $98.5 Billion, or over 30%  Taxpayer Subsidies for Stadiums of 26 Billionaire Team Owners Have Totaled $9 Billion Since 1990, with most in last decade We won’t know the winner of this year’s Super Bowl till […]



Gains of 13 Richest Residents Could Cover State’s $3 Billion Budget Shortfall Fifty Times Over & Still Leave Billionaires as Rich as They Were Before Pandemic  State Wealth Tax Getting Hearing in Legislature Today Could Raise Billions a Year While Barely Slowing the Growth of Billionaire Wealth The collective wealth of Washington State’s 13 known […]

660 Billionaires’ Collective Gain During COVID Crisis Could Pay for All of the Working Family Relief in Biden’s Coronavirus Response Plan  Even as freshly empowered Democrats in Washington bring new focus to defeating the pandemic, not much has changed for America’s billionaires in the midst of the crisis—except the further swelling of their bank balances. […]