Election 2012 and Our Sensible Super Rich
Take all that post-election commentary about foolish billionaires and wasted millions in political contributions with a grain of salt. Our billionaires don't have to actually win on Election Day to...
Research & Commentary
From academics to activists, thoughtful people worldwide are focusing their attention on economic inequality as never before.
Class Warfare in Greece
The right wing in America and abroad never tires of trotting out the accusation of "class warfare" anytime anyone tries to raise taxes on the rich -- or even tries...
HOT lanes make my blood boil: Fast tracks for the rich on the rise
Anyone who's ever driven in urban America has had the experience of waiting in a long line of stopped traffic while some jerk who thought he was too important to...
Keeping the Rich Comfy: Your Job Future?
We've lost our manufacturing economy in the United States. Now we're losing our service economy. We're rapidly becoming, some observers fear, a 'servant economy.' By Sam Pizzigati Fire fighter, basketball...
Women’s Wages Can No Longer Rescue the American Family
For the past forty years American men's incomes have stagnated. The US economy has doubled in real per capita terms since 1973, but the median male wage income has fallen...
America Is Even More Unequal than It Seems
We all know that the United States is the most unequal of the rich nations of the world. Only relatively poor countries like Malaysia and Mexico have levels of inequality...
America’s Rich: Pulling Away
Americans haven't heard much at all from Joe the Plumber this election cycle. A shame. Without his rants against sharing the wealth, no one's bothering to debate how desperately America...
The Romneys don’t make money; Their money makes money
In 2011, Willard M. Romney and Ann D. Romney reported an adjusted gross income of $13,696,951 via tax returns that were highly skewed - both literally and figuratively. Literally, the...
The Blitz of Empty Anti-Wall Street Rhetoric
Candidates this fall are taking plenty of pokes at the financial industry's best and brightest. But they could be doing a lot more than poke. They could push to start...
Poverty More than a Matter of Black and White
Far too many Americans still see poverty and poor people through a racial prism that distorts demographic realities — and undermines efforts to narrow income inequality.