Our Trickle-Down Achievement Gap
Growing economic inequality, new research details, is translating into an ever greater achievement gap in America's classrooms. His vitally important central finding: That achievement gap most certainly — and most...
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Executive Pay Excess: A New Battlefront
Taxpayers, once again this year, are subsidizing over-the-top CEO pay by the billions. But now on the table: a promising new proposal that encourages corporations to share that excess —...
A Time When Government Never Shut Down
Did America’s rich 50 years ago live on a different planet? Or reside in some parallel universe? Taxing today’s rich could, of course, help fill these budget shortfalls and avoid...
A Ghost from a Ghastly Public Policy Past
House budget-cutters are taking their inspiration from the greatest giveaway — to the rich — artist the nation's capital has ever known. You won’t find many photos with smiles on...
How Inequality Quite Literally Kills
Why do we have murders? The “police procedurals” that dominate prime-time TV almost invariably end up blaming deranged delinquents. But the global academic “near consensus,” notes the just-released first Research...
America’s Billion-Dollar-a-Year Men
Hedge fund honchos bet on stocks. They bet on gold. They bet on lawsuits. Most of all, they bet that the rest of us will never wise up to the...
A New Record Hedge Fund Windfall
The hedge fund industry’s trade journal has just released its annual figures for hedge fund manager earnings. The big winner for 2010: John Paulson. His winnings: the biggest ever, an...
U.S. Wealth: A Second Opinion
The dust has now settled from the 2008 financial crash. The money, too. The question of the day: In whose pockets? Two sets of researchers have offered answers to that...
Inequality’s Impact: A New Debate Opens
If the wealth of the wealthy really bothered Americans, flacks for grand fortune enjoy declaring, our political system would be shaking something fierce. They don't see a whole lot of...
The Right’s Pushback Against Taxing the Rich
The rising public clamor for higher taxes on America's wealthy has conservative ideologues increasingly uneasy. For good reason. They don't have the numbers on their side. Or history either. A...
Pay Up, Corporate Tax Dodgers
We're chumps unless we force Congress to stop tax haven abuse. Instead of cutting state and federal budgets, the United States should crack down on the corporate tax dodgers thumbing...
What Wall Streeters Took Off the Table
The financial industry meltdown has bestowed upon profs at business schools a wondrous gift: a life-time supply of fascinating data to burrow their way through. Two respected scholars — from...