The clock began ticking this weekend for millions of government food aid recipients in New York and the nation, who could go hungry unless some good-hearted billionaire benefactor steps up to help ...

It’s harder than ever to rank among the nation’s 400 richest people. Few things could make the average billionaire feel poor—The Forbes 400 list is one of them. There are now a record 900 billionaires ...

In Stewart Cumbo’s Sept. 26 letter to the editor, “The time to end poverty is now,” he posits the unnecessity of poverty given the presence of billionaires. He suggests poverty could be ended simply ...

“We actually do face a moment in which there is a fundamental choice between oligarchy and democracy,” Oxfam America senior ...

California’s proposed wealth tax aims to go after billionaires’ balance sheets, but it largely sidesteps the way many ultrawealthy people actually generate spendable cash: they borrow against their ...