The headlines this summer are full of gloom and doom about the upcoming 2012-2013 school year. Schools are closing. Teachers are being laid off. State and local governments are cutting...
The movers and shakers of scandal-ridden Wall Street are busy scapegoating a 'few rotten apples' — and hoping the rest of us don't notice they're still holding billions in ill-gotten...
For decades academia has been something of a haven from rising inequality. Yes, there are star professors with fat paychecks and union-busting university presidents. Grants often go to those who...
Using 1968 as our benchmark for the minimum wage implies that low-wage Americans today should be making just as much as low-wage Americans were making 44 years ago.
Our official wealth stats vastly understate the actual extent of current inequality, says a landmark new study on global tax havens. Are America’s rich getting richer? They’re certainly making much...
A new report from the Pew Economic Mobility Project has some observers celebrating how well Americans are doing compared to their parents. But the report's figures, upon closer inspection, give...
Forget the economic news. The health news from Greece is far more grim. Drug companies aren't supplying basic medicines. Hospitals are turning away patients needing surgery. Suicides are up 40%....
New data has solidified New York's standing as the most unequal major city in the world's most unequal developed nation. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed ban on super-sized sodas...
Popular opinion and press punditry has it that we're still in a recession, the Great Recession, that started in 2008 and has gone on for five years now. The reality...
America has finally started talking about a financial transactions tax (FTT) on Wall Street. About time. Academics have always known that FTTs are among the most efficient, best-targeted, least painful...
America's revolutionary generation, new research details, lived in a society much more equal than our own. And early Americans prized that equality, an inconvenient reality for conservatives today. Not too...
For roughly 300 million Americans, our new century has brought only income stagnation. But for 30,000 very wealthy Americans, the century has brought consistently rising incomes beyond the dreams of...
