Is Climate Change an Engine of Inequality?
Climate change disproportionately burdens the most vulnerable Americans while enriching a few at the top.
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Thomas Piketty’s Model of Inequality and Growth in Historical Context, Part I
Piketty is not the first to propose a grand model of inequality and growth. In Thomas Piketty’s doomsday model, slowing of growth in the twenty-first century will cause an inexorable...
Must Modern Economies Nurture Narcissism?
To really take on grandiosity and greed, a new report from a prestigious CEO pay watchdog suggests, we may need to shove onto the global political stage the notion of...
A New Gameplan for Taking Down Privatizers
The outsourcing of public services to private go-getters has concentrated wealth the whole world over. The best answer to that concentration? That just may be new forms of public ownership....
How Much Wealth Are Our Wealthiest Hiding?
More than enough, the latest statistical evidence suggests, to warrant a full-fledged federal search. A new banking law in effect this month could start that search in the right direction....
America’s CEOs: In a Class All by Themselves
Workers in the United States don't make double what workers make in Japan or Switzerland. Why should U.S. CEOs routinely make double — and often much more — than Japanese...
Child Poverty and the Single-Mom Misdirect
Don’t blame unmarried mothers for child poverty. Look instead to an unequal economy loaded with low-wage jobs. By Sheila Suess Kennedy Over the past couple of decades, a number of...
Impunity and the Crimes of Finance Oligarchs
Look no further than the leadership of the American financial industry for our own brand of oligarchs who enjoy criminal impunity. By Robert J.S. Ross In the global discussion of...
A Private Putsch Against Public Schooling
Deep in the heart of Texas, still another billionaire is scheming to make public education a rewarding business investment opportunity. Billionaires have opinions. In a democracy, billionaires have the right...
A New Spin from the Inequality Denialist Set
A key keeper of the free-market fundamentalist flame wants us to know that all his rich and powerful red-state pals really do care about income maldistribution. By Sam Pizzigati [caption...
The Many Pipelines that Pump Our Wealth Up
Wage squeezes, share buybacks, and tax subsidies, three new progressive think tank studies show, are all combining to keep America's high and mighty ever higher and mightier. By Sam Pizzigati...
America’s Troubling Past with Poverty
[caption id="attachment_6591" align="alignright" width="290"] William Graham Sumner (1840 - 1910) was a Social Darwinist who believed the poor deserve their condition. His thought continues to influence debates about poverty in...