Online Education’s Lucrative New Bottom Line
Corporate execs and billionaire ideologues are creating — at taxpayer expense — a network of schools where learning takes a back seat. The sounds of September: school bells ringing, looseleaf...
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Forget the Polls: Obama Is the Odds-On Favorite to Win in November
According to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, the November presidential election is a dead heat between Democratic incumbent Barrack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. The late August CBS News poll ] had Obama ahead by...
Who’s Really Winning the Smartphone Wars?
In our current economic and political environment, we’re letting top executives of giant corporations expropriate public 'property' for private gain. By Sam Pizzigati Why do CEOs make so much? Do...
How to Safely Scale Down the Fiscal Cliff
Pundits pounced earlier this year when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned that the country will face a "massive fiscal cliff" at the beginning of 2013. It seemed we had...
A Bold New Labor Call for a ‘Maximum Wage’
The leader of one of America's feistiest unions is aiming to expand the economic fairness debate. He's proposing a cap on incomes at the top that rises only if incomes...
To End the Jobs Recession, Invest an Extra $20 Billion in Public Education
The late-2000s economic recession officially ended in 2009 when a barrage of federal stimulus spending overwhelmed the slowing economy and pushed it back into growth. Over the past three years,...
Some Context for Those ‘Lower’ Profit Reports
Press accounts about ‘lower than previously believed’ corporate earnings have painted a misleading picture. Corporate profits remain at high levels. And taxes on these corporate profits are running lower than...
Mega-Million CEOs: Our Tax Dollars at Work
The old robber barons exploited workers and gouged consumers. Today's robber barons are making millions off a new class of victims: average American taxpayers.
Rising Inequality, Global Warming, and Virgin Galactic
If two words can capture the extraordinary redistribution of wealth from workers to the wealthy over the past forty years, the flagrant shamelessness of contemporary conspicuous consumption, the privatization of...
For Billionaires, a Heaven on Earth Beckons
The United States already sports an exceedingly rich people-friendly tax structure. But America's rich have far more friendly tax models in mind. Like Singapore. Why do the mega rich in...
Mr. President, the Elephant in the Room Is Not a Republican
The recession has been hard on everyone. Tens of millions of people lost their jobs. Many of those who didn't lose their jobs suffered salary cuts. Retirement savings and home...
In a Plutocracy, Only Moguls Have Megaphones
In today's anything-goes political fundraising world, the nation’s super rich and their favored politicos are no longer even going through the motions of maintaining 'separate and independent' campaigns. By Sam...