Inequality Top Reads

J.J. Mulva, the CEO of oil giant ConocoPhillips, has emerged as the highest-paid U.S. chief exec of the past year. His take-home:  $154.7 million.

America’s top nurses union is pressing for a financial transactions tax, and that campaign has hedge fund billionaires seeing red.

To claim social mobility as your guiding principle yet ignore income inequality, note two of the world’s top experts on the impact of top-heavy distributions of income and wealth, does not make for serious policy making.

Corporations that pay their CEOs over 40 times what their workers are making should face a higher federal income tax rate on their profits.

The new Egyptian maximum wage will limit compensation for top officials in the public sector to 35 times the minimum wage of the lowest-level employee at the same government body. The Egyptian labor movement is pushing for the maximum to apply to the private sector as well.

In a landmark credo statement, the Occupy movement is calling for a ‘maximum income’ to help build a solidarity economy.

An editorial page editor notes that public spending, not the talents of rich people, drives our progress.

Conservative political action committees are raising record totals from America’s deepest pockets.

A vivid and moving picture of the inequality that drove a teacher in London to join the Occupy movement.

An annual increase in income inequality, says a landmark new study, will begin increasing mortality rates five years later, with the influence peaking after seven years.