A Budget Plan for the People
The President's populist budget will leave Republicans scrambling to explain why they don't support it.
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Our Widely Ignored Redistribution Up
If redistribution is so terrible, why do our policy wonks pay so little attention to redistribution from poor to rich?
Are Taxes the Real NFL Scandal?
With all the NFL scandals from this past season, the one that has received the least attention is the easiest to solve: the league’s tax-exempt status.
A Kerfuffle Over Global Wealth Stats
Can we trust Oxfam’s latest numbers on global inequality? Critics don't think we should. But their pushback is getting pushback aplenty.
GOP Finally Discovers Inequality?
First they were the inequality-deniers. Now you might call them the inequality-opportunists.
Poverty or Inequality: Does It Matter?
Does it really matter whether we say “inequality,” “poverty,” or something else? By Peter Marcuse [caption id="attachment_8046" align="alignright" width="290"] If inequality rather than poverty is the focus, we are required to focus...
Is Philanthropy the Same As Plutocracy?
In the philanthropy versus policy debate, the entire democratic process is at stake. [caption id="attachment_8013" align="alignright" width="322"] When wealthy people like the Koch brothers, the Gateses and others finance the...
Can Philanthropy Fix Our Inequality?
Billionaire Bill Gates believes the charitable giving of the rich will alleviate inequality. Is he correct?
Top 5 Inequality Ideas in the SOTU
The President's speech included policy proposals that would have a big impact on reducing inequality.
Generating Environmental Inequality
In New Jersey's Ironbound community, environmental inequality is a stark reality. By David Bensman [caption id="attachment_7947" align="alignright" width="458"] Government decisions have generated environmental inequality in New Jersey's Ironbound community of...
Dueling Wall Street Taxes
To clamp down on Wall Street recklessness, we need to be taxing both excessively leveraged financial institutions and short-term speculating. Why does the White House see the two taxes as...
A Blue-Ribbon Inequality Blindspot
To save our democracy, a major new report on our grand divide never gets around to recognizing, we need to contemplate our plutocracy.