Blogging Our Great Divide

The President's speech included policy proposals that would have a big impact on reducing inequality.

To clamp down on Wall Street recklessness, we need to be taxing both excessively leveraged financial institutions and short-term speculating. Why does the White House see the two taxes as...

To save our democracy, a major new report on our grand divide never gets around to recognizing, we need to contemplate our plutocracy.

The White House is going after the tax code provision that lets the super rich avoid billions of dollars of taxes on their wheeling and dealing

America’s most typical adults would be three-times richer if the United States distributed wealth as equally as France does. How much does inequality cost the average American family? What price...

Here are poll results that are not the least bit surprising:

Right out of the blocks, House Democrats are pushing a tax reform in the 114th Congress that responds to public concerns over the persistently wide gaps between CEO and worker pay.

A handy yardstick for gauging how rapidly our wealth is concentrating.

Conservative economists tried to embarrass Thomas Piketty at the American Economic Association annual meeting in Boston. They ended up embarrassing only themselves.

Don't let inequality apologists spin global numbers to dismiss concerns over our top-heavy economic order.