Wealth Reform Project

Understanding wealth concentration through public data

This project collects public economic, political, and social data to study wealth concentration, inequality, housing costs, lobbying influence, taxation, and possible reform strategies.

The goal is to turn scattered public data into clear explanations, visualizations, and practical reform proposals.

Project Status

This website is in its early foundation stage. The current focus is building the source inventory, research framework, and first proposal pages before adding automated data collectors and charts.

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1. Data Collectors

Scripts and source lists for collecting public datasets from the Federal Reserve, FRED, BLS, Census, FEC/OpenSecrets, WID, housing datasets, and lobbying records.

View Data Plan

2. Research Summaries

Plain-language summaries of what the data shows about wealth inequality, income, housing, taxes, and political influence.

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3. Reform Proposals

Possible reforms evaluated by evidence, practicality, risks, tradeoffs, and expected effects.

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Data Foundation

The project is currently building a source foundation using public datasets on wealth, income, labor, housing, campaign finance, lobbying, and international inequality.

These sources will support future charts, research summaries, and reform proposal evaluations.