Study: Financial Tax Would Pay Off Big
A serious tax on financial industry high-rollers, says a new German study, would raise far more billions than previous estimates have assumed.
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Does Inequality Limit Life Span or Not?
The idea that our economic divides affect how long we live remains difficult for many Americans to swallow. But swallow we must because inequality is killing us. [caption id="attachment_8401" align="alignright"...
Walmart Needs a Maximum Wage
Walmart raised wages after being pressured by its own employees, but it still outpaces the pack when it comes to overpaid execs.
Reclaiming Our Squeezed State Budgets
A message for our cutback-happy governors: We're not broke. We're just keeping too much of our wealth in too few pockets. By Susan Gries [caption id="attachment_8381" align="alignright" width="300"] If our...
The Income Equity Act: Another Try!
Should America’s taxpayers be subsidizing all those millions in compensation that CEOs are collecting? At least some members of Congress don’t think so.
IMF: Weaker Unions = Higher CEO Pay
Researchers at the International Monetary Fund are detailing just how much societies suffer — and top execs grab — when trade unions have no strong presence.
That ‘Rich Pay Their Fair Share’ Canard
The right’s favorite rationale for lowering the taxes rich people pay can make sense, but only if you believe that fairness demands taxing the first dollar of a person’s income...
Segregation’s Insidious New Face
Racial segregation dominated the American residential landscape for generations. We can’t afford, suggests the research of Stanford’s Sean Reardon, to let economic segregation have anywhere near as long a run....
Fair Trade? We Have Nothing Close
In a textbook market economy, buyers and sellers know all they need to know and never get burned. Today’s oligarchs and plutocrats have essentially burned the textbook. [caption id="attachment_8328" align="alignright"...
America’s Leading Export: Inequality
You don’t have to buy the theories in Thomas Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ to use his data. And those data show that the United States has become a...
It’s Morning Again in America or Is It?
The low- and middle-income families hurt most by the Great Recession are continuing to receive the least benefit from our recovering economy. [caption id="attachment_8307" align="alignright" width="400"] Corporations may be swimming...
Our Social Darwinists Then and Now
Conservatives like Paul Ryan seem to have discovered inequality. But don’t take that discovery all that seriously. Their basic mindsets still haven’t changed any. [caption id="attachment_8294" align="alignright" width="250"] Sociologist William...