UNEQUAL: The rise of a new American oligarchy and the agenda we need

Riddell, Rebecca

dc.contributor.author	Riddell, Rebecca
dc.date.accessioned	2025-11-14T16:11:52Z
dc.date.available	2025-11-14T16:11:52Z
dc.date.issued	2025-11-03
dc.identifier.doi	10.21201/2025.000100
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10546/621764
dc.description	<html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <p>This past year has been indelibly shaped by concentrated wealth and power. The 10 richest U.S. billionaires got $698 billion wealthier, and the arrival of the world’s first trillionaire grew more imminent. The Trump administration—largely with the support of the Republican-controlled Congress—has moved with staggering speed and scale to carry out a relentless attack on working-class families, while enriching the wealthy and well-connected.</p> <p>How did the country get here? The story does not begin in 2025. Oxfam’s UNEQUAL provides a snapshot of U.S. economic inequality today, and looks at the trends in recent decades that have culminated in contemporary extremes that are corroding U.S. democracy and causing hardship for many millions of people. The report examines the influence of concentrated wealth over politics, and how policymakers’ choices on tax, labor, social protection and other issues contributed to the growing divide between the very wealthiest and much of the country. It sounds the highest alarm about what comes next and sets out an agenda to turn the tide and reverse harmful inequality, calling on policymakers to back the demands of workers, movements, and communities to deliver for ordinary people.</p> </body> </html>	en_US
dc.format.extent	43	en_US
dc.language.iso	English	en_US
dc.publisher	Oxfam America	en_US
dc.relation.url	http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/unequal-the-rise-of-a-new-american-oligarchy-and-the-agenda-we-need-621764
dc.subject	Inequality	en_US
dc.title	UNEQUAL: The rise of a new American oligarchy and the agenda we need	en_US
dc.type	Briefing paper	en_US
oxfam.signoff.status	For public use. Can be shared outside Oxfam	en_US
oxfam.subject.country	United States	en_US
oxfam.subject.keyword	Inequality	en_US
oxfam.subject.keyword	Extreme wealth	en_US
refterms.dateFOA	2025-11-14T16:11:54Z