The New War on Inequality: Just Rhetoric?
Those Americans struggling against poverty in the 1960s had plenty of obstacles in their way. We have more. They operated in a functioning democracy. We live, by contrast, in deeply...
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Could 2014 Be Year One of the Pay Ratio Era?
In the year ahead, nurses and college students just might jump-start the struggle against America's chronic — and growing — income inequality. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_5983" align="alignright" width="300"] Students...
A Year of Delightful Egalitarian Imagination
Nurses, philosophers, and trade unions have over the past 12 months all shared some fascinating ideas on how we can make our societies more equal — and much better —...
America’s Greediest: The 2013 Top Ten
Butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers. You won't find any of them in this latest annual list of America's most avaricious. You will find wheelers and dealers and a candy store...
Inequality: A Sure Way to Kill a Good Time
What makes a society a fun place to be? Nice weather and exciting nightlife options certainly help. So does avoiding a starkly skewed distribution of income and wealth. [caption id="attachment_5912"...
From Rome, Five Basic Insights on Inequality
In plain yet powerful language, Pope Francis is challenging the givens of our deeply unequal world — and helping inspire resistance to it.
China’s Third Plenum Endorses the “Decisive” Role of the Market — Unfortunately for China
The Third Plenary Meeting of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (the ‘Third Plenum’) took place November 9-13 in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing....
A Call to Arms From Oz to American Academics
The view from Australia is unusually grim. A new kind of social disease has spread from recession in the United States to austerity in Europe to manufactured crisis in Australia....
Estate Taxes: Down to 1 Percent and Sinking
In America today, thanks to glaring loopholes in the tax code, even modestly competent tax attorneys can help their wealthy clients sidestep the federal estate tax almost entirely. By Bob...
One ‘Entitlement’ Really Does Need Trimming
America's corporate CEOs feel entitled to pensions that pay out $86,000 monthly. To protect their entitlement, they're attacking ours: Social Security. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_5866" align="alignright" width="238"] A new...
European Progress Toward a Financial Transactions Tax
Germany's major political parties have agreed on the need to impose a financial transactions tax (FTT) as part of a broad package of economic reforms to be undertaken by a...
A Daring Bid to Stomp Out CEO Pay Excess
Young activists in Switzerland have plutocrats hyperventilating — and spending a fortune to beat back a ballot initiative that would establish a legal limit on the pay gap between top execs and their workers.