Molly Baines’s Reviews > Poverty, by America > Status Update

“Simply collecting unpaid federal income taxes from the top 1 percent of households would bring in some $175 billion a year. We could just about fill the entire poverty gap in America if the richest among us simply paid all the taxes they owed.”

“In 2020, Americans spent $1.6 billion just to cash checks. If the poor had a costless way to access their own money, over a billion dollars would have remained in their pockets during the pandemic-induced recession.”

"In the history of the nation there has only been one other state sponsored initiative more anti-family than mass incarceration, and that was slavery."