Detroit’s property tax base, diminished and badly-assessed, could still fund a renewal if Michigan would only read its history and find the political will. By Mason Gaffney and Polly Cleveland...
An insider is spilling the beans on the great unsaid in charitable circles: You can't ignore wealth's maldistribution and hope to fix an unequal world. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_5571"...
Who’s going to emerge as the real winner once the ‘IRS scandal’ dust settles? Only the awesomely affluent among us benefit when we have an underfunded — and ineffective —...
Jobs have been pretty hard to come by in the 21st century. Employment growth was sluggish from 2000 through 2007. Then the recession struck. There are about a million fewer...
It was the perfect “natural experiment:” in April 1992, New Jersey’s minimum-wage was scheduled to rise from $4.25 an hour to $5.05, while neighboring Pennsylvania’s minimum wage remained unchanged. Princeton...
To protect our health, we’ve learned to have our ‘vital signs’ taken. But no visit to a doctor’s office can tell us the vital signs that determine where on earth...
Since 1970 income inequality has been rising across the developed countries of the world. In the United States, income inequality declined for a century until 1970. Since roughly 1968-1973 inequality...
The 'market' isn't working for working people. The rich have rigged the rules. We ought to keep trying, of course, to reduce the resulting inequality. But why not, unions are...
An academic heavyweight from Harvard has taken up the cause of America’s most affluent 1 percent. But his defense has done the nation’s rich no favors. By Colin Gordon [caption...
Where will this century's jobs come from? What can we do about youth unemployment and underemployment? How can today's developed countries maintain their labor standards and environmental laws in the...
Private wealth management groups continue to survey the holdings of the rich. These rich, the data make plain, are holding an ever greater share of the world's bounty. For the...
Back in 1776, public-spirited patriots emerged from the ranks of colonial America's privileged. But our corporate elite today seems to offer up only thieving, tax-dodging parasites. Why such a contrast?...
