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From warmaking and tax avoidance to consumer gouging and environmental destruction, the candidates for 2015 Hypocrite of the Year truly earned their spot on this list. By Paul Buchheit [caption...

Thomas Piketty recently spelled out a highly controversial theory about the cause of terrorism: economic inequality. By Sheila Suess Kennedy [caption id="attachment_9885" align="alignright" width="300"] Credit: nymag.com[/caption] A year after his...

Pharma Bro’s one-of-a-kind album purchase exemplifies how the ultra rich are polluting our culture.

Wealthiest 20 people own more wealth than half the American population. By Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie "Billionaire Bonanza," a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies, exposes the...

Once again we learn it’s easier to identify problems than it is to solve them, and that seems especially true with respect to income and wealth inequality.

New study shows striking divide between nation’s wealthiest and the rest of us. [caption id="attachment_9834" align="alignright" width="300"] America’s 20 wealthiest people — a group that could fit comfortably in one...

That just may be Martine Durand, the chief statistician of the developed world’s most important research agency. How does she view her role and our inequality data future? We asked....

Making college tuition free for everyone, some claim, would waste scarce tax dollars on rich households that don’t need them. Does that claim hold water?

New research shows the effects of inequality on health—especially stress levels—have far-reaching societal consequences.

Startling new data from the National Academy of Sciences suggest that inequality may be exacting a much steeper price — on our health — than we’ve up to now expected.

You might want to rethink all those really nice things you’ve been saying about ‘equality of opportunity.’ By Bob Lord and Sam Pizzigati Dear Top 1 Percenters, [caption id="attachment_9788" align="alignright"...

From the days of slavery to the 21st century rebirth of the poll tax, our tax system has been concentrating wealth at African-American expense, as legal scholar Andre Smith details...