A Tax Turnabout in the Ranks of the Right
A prominent conservative in Congress has released a tax reform package that actually will not leave the rich significantly richer. Should we be grateful for small blessings — or suspicious?...
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The Mess on Our ‘Information Superhighway’
Why should moving data around be any different from moving people? No private party ought to be getting rich off a basic public trust. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_6146" align="alignright"...
At GM, A Revealing Hubbub over a New CEO
Equal pay for equal work? We still haven't arrived at that destination. Decent pay that reflects the dignity of all who labor? In today's America, we've barely begun that journey....
Increasing the Minimum Wage Can Actually Create Jobs—If It’s Enforced
Back when I first studied economics, we “proved” in class that a minimum wage causes unemployment. You just draw supply and demand curves for labor, add a horizontal line for...
Why Cupid Seems to Be Missing More Often
Those arrows aren't hitting their lovelorn targets the way they once did. The reason? New research points to our growing economic divide. [caption id="attachment_6104" align="alignright" width="300"] Cupid would likely have...
The Affordable Care Act Will Raise Wages
According to New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio, “If we’re subsidizing companies, we have every right to demand a living wage for the people they pay.” He’s referring to conventional Democratic...
Sustainability Squared
We already have the necessary technology — technology that can create more and better jobs How can the world attain a decent, sustainable lifestyle, one that doesn’t wreck our land,...
What Will Reversing Inequality Really Take?
In the fierce debate over our top-heavy distribution of income and wealth, egalitarians have vanquished both inequality's deniers and defenders. Now the debate is shifting to the most pivotal question of all.
The Minimum We Can Do to Fight Inequality
Why the 2014 State of the Union action agenda won't take us nearly as far as we need to go. The political profile of economic inequality in America has certainly...
High in the Alps, Plutocrats Play at Pondering
At the annual retreat of our global elites, the world’s wealthy wring their hands over the widening inequality they so relentlessly widen. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_6048" align="alignright" width="300"] At...
What’s Crippling the Recovery: Lack of Investment Demand or Too-Big-to-Lend Banks?
QE is supposed to stimulate the economy by encouraging investment with low interest money. That hasn't happened, but why? Does no one want to borrow, or do banks not want...
Defining a Daring New Standard for Fair Pay
A new Toronto-based campaign is aiming to change the global conversation on CEOs, workers, and the real value of their labor. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_6029" align="alignright" width="235"] Wagemark offers...