Sanders, Lee, and Tlaib Lead Effort to Tax Huge CEO-Worker Pay Gaps
The House-Senate companion bill addresses corporate America’s extreme disparities, giving firms an incentive to lift up the bottom and bring down the top of their pay scales.
Blogging Our Great Divide
New developments on the inequality front? Our Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org editorial team tracks them here.
Michael Bloomberg Bought Gracie Mansion. Could He Buy the White House?
With personal fortunes worth dozens of billions, modern American deep pockets can afford one of just about everything.
Inequality and the Iron Law of Decaying Public Services
The fires ravaging California offer still another reason to fear our grand economic divides.
How Much in ‘Inequality Tax’ Are You Paying?
The hidden burden America’s top-heavy distribution of income and wealth places on people of modest means
Where is ‘Line Worker Barbie’?
CEO-worker pay gaps are the clearest proof that corporations like Mattel and many others don't respect their employees.
Can an Economic Stat Help Narrow Our Grand Economic Divide?
Egalitarian-minded economists are pushing for a ‘GDP 2.0’ — and getting some lawmaker help.
Who is Buying Seattle? The Perils of the Luxury Real Estate Boom
A snapshot of luxury condominiums and their ownership and occupancy trends offers a preliminary peek at the challenges posed by Seattle’s luxury boom.
Have Researchers Just Hit an Inequality Trifecta?
Three new sets of stats help us understand why America’s 400 richest have never been richer.
California Takes On the NCAA and Allows College Athletes to Get Paid
A new law could change the culture of college sports, and upturn a model that lets coaches feast while players struggle to make ends meet.