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RG Media Coverage in 2018

Business Insider: Rich millennials with more money than they need or want have found a new way to spend their cash

TIME: This Millennial Activist Found Out She Had a Trust Fund Worth Millions. Here’s What She Did With It

Colorlines: Op-ed “How This Crazy Rich Asian Fights Wealth Inequality and the Model Minority Myth”

New York Post: My Trust Fund Made Me Miserable

Top Rank Podcast: Resource Generation

Teen Vogue: Op-ed “Self-Made is a Myth”

Got A Girl Crush: “We can’t all be free in a system that was never built for most of us”: A Conversation on Wealth Redistribution

KPFA radio: Changing the Power Structure

Huffington Post: Young, Rich and Fighting The System That Made Them Wealthy

Wear Your Voice Mag: How I Benefited from Tax Evasion and Wealth Hoarding

OZY:  “Could Tax Transparency Lead to Greater Equality?”

The Guardian: What’s Behind Wealthy People Pretending to Be Self-Made?

 

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