Though GOP congressional leaders talk austerity and imply that the only solution to budget deficits are spending cuts, a strong majority of people in the U.S. want to put raising taxes on the table.
Back in the mid 20th century, colleges and universities helped America beat down economic inequality. Now they reinforce it.
Billionaire cash contributions have been cascading into America’s most troubled school districts. Unfortunately, so have billionaire perspectives on education.
Some politicians would rather cut services for children and the mentally ill before they dare to propose tax hikes on millionaires and tax-dodging corporations. But that doesn’t mean we’re broke. It just means we need to get our priorities straight.
On behalf of all of us at the Institute for Policy Studies, I’m pleased to introduce inequality.org as a new portal for data, analysis, and commentary on wealth and income disparity.
Why do Swedes and citizens of other relatively equal nations take their lives at a higher rate than residents of more unequal nations? Four investigators have tapped new data to help make sense out of a paradox that has dogged the research on economic disparities for decades.
A consumer alert for soccer moms and doting granddads: Outrageous compensation rewards give corporate executives an incentive to behave outrageously — against you!
Stanford’s Sean Reardon starts out his latest research, on the achievement gap between students from rich families and poor, with a question no one has yet asked: Has this educational gap grown as the dollar gap between high- and low-income U.S. families has widened?
Britain’s Equality Trust has begun a new series on what academic investigators have to tell us about economic inequality’s impact on society. The just-released first of these research briefs explores the powerfully strong links between grand income divides and violent crime.
Over recent decades, America’s most basic public policy choices, on everything from taxes to trade, have served to disadvantage working people and lavish luxuries on rich ones. No one has detailed the impact of those decisions better than economists at the Economic Policy Institute.