A U.S. Pay Ratio Disclosure Victory!
The federal Securities and Exchange Commission has just given Americans an official yardstick for measuring corporate CEO greed. The sourest person in the nation’s capital today just may have been...
Blogging Our Great Divide
New developments on the inequality front? Our Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org editorial team tracks them here.
India Spotlights Corporate Pay Ratios
In India, major corporations now have to disclose their CEO and median worker pay. This disclosure could be a CEO pay game changer. Over the past five years, new data...
Restoring Labor Rights in Bangladesh
Two years after the April 24, 2013, collapse of the Rana Plaza building, Bangladesh has become a laboratory to test whether pressure from worldwide labor unions and NGOs in support...
Is Wall Street Pay Too High?
Let's rein in Wall Street pay before the high-flying gamblers drive us back to the brink.
What Obama Can Learn From Scotland
As the Scots begin tackling their rising incarceration problem, America should learn from them.
Stalling CEO Worker-Pay Disclosure
Regulators of the Great Depression era could teach their modern-day counterparts a few lessons in how to get things done. Consider, for example, how fast the Securities and Exchange...
Gobble Up Poor, Feast on Middle Class
What do wealthy Americans do after they’ve finished eating the poor? They start on the middle class, of course. So goes the ugly process of wealth and income redistribution in America.
Billionaires Declare Tax Independence
The need for a robust tax on inherited wealth has never been greater.
Snake Oil Won’t Cure Inequality
The GOP's 2016 contenders talk a good game about the wealth gap while making it even bigger.