Can an Olympics Fight Inequality?
Staging an Olympics in Boston could help reduce the wealth gap, but only if planners identify the interventions that could reduce the city's most basic disparities.
Blogging Our Great Divide
New developments on the inequality front? Our Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org editorial team tracks them here.
Traffic Fines from Finland to Ferguson
A $58,000 traffic ticket? A number of European nations don’t let the rich off easy. In the United States, by contrast, we pummel the poor for minor offenses. Apple CEO...
McDonald’s Workers Aren’t Lovin’ It
McDonald's is the latest mega-rich corporate employer to announce it's giving workers a raise. In a press release this week, McDonald's announced it would raise workers' wages to at least...
5 Tax Secrets of America’s Billionaires
Here are five tax secrets billionaires deploy to keep you paying more than your fair share:
Corporate Stockpiling Out of Control
Just 26 companies account for more than half of the $2.1 trillion in untaxed profits U.S. corporations currently hold offshore.
What George Will Got Wrong
The growing gap between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else affects much more than the cost of a 50-inch plasma TV.
Enriching CEOs, Endangering Patients
A new online petition drive is protesting the incredibly high prices that enormously overpaid pharmaceutical CEOs charge for cancer drugs.
Using the Family Farm to Help the Rich
Estate tax opponents use farmers as props in recent House hearing.