Tag Archives: Wealthy

Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is defending his membership at Spouting Rock Beach Association (Bailey’s Beach Club) in Newport, Rhode Island. GoLocal Providence, a local news organization, describes the private beach club as “all-white.” GoLocal Providence asked the lawmaker if the beach club granted any minorities membership since the first time they …

A report from ProPublica, an investigative newsroom, reveals that the richest 25 people in the United States have a “true tax rate” of almost nothing. The nonprofit organization received IRS data from an unidentified source. “Looks like the biggest tax story of the year, if not the decade,” Gabriel Zucman, …