The longstanding wealth gap between the rich and everyone else has deepened due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the US’s uneven economic recovery. Since the start of the crisis, 467 billionaires have seen their collective wealth grow by over $732 billion, while millions of small businesses have closed and tens of millions of people remain unemployed. Now more than ever, the national consensus is that the system isn’t working for the majority of Americans and that, through progressive tax policy, the wealthy should contribute more to ensure a more equitable society.

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