Ratcheting Up the Racial Divide
The United States, by some benchmarks, has made phenomenal racial progress over the years. In polite white company, for instance, no politico today would ever dare mutter the “N” word....
Research & Commentary
From academics to activists, thoughtful people worldwide are focusing their attention on economic inequality as never before.
Finding the Good in the ‘Good Old Days’
It’s federal budget time, and they’re talking 1950s on Capitol Hill. Well, sometimes we can move forward by turning the political clock back. But we have to know exactly where...
The Paycheck Data CEOs Don’t Want Us to See
Corporate America is working feverishly behind the scenes to smother a new federal mandate, enacted last year, that just might revitalize the drive to roll back excessive executive pay. Sometimes...
A Trade Union Push for Pay Caps
Executive pay Down Under is rising at an even faster rate that U.S. top exec pay, details a new Australian Council of Trade Unions report. Australia's trade unions are calling...
In the U.S., a Missing Trickle Down
Two of every five adults globally with over $1 million in net worth live in the United States. But U.S. median wealth — the wealth of the typical American —...
A New Inequality Emphasis from the UN
Over the past 20 years, the UN Human Development Report — an effort to compare the world's nations not just on economic growth, but health and education as well —...
A Tax-the-Rich Lesson Finally Goes Public
The National Archives in Washington, D.C. has just released a once-secret report that helps us understand how incredibly much today's tax structure coddle the wealthiest among us. By Sam Pizzigati...
Resurrect the Estate Tax
Dan Duncan died at the end of March. The Houston gas pipeline mogul left behind a spouse, four children, four grandkids, and a fortune worth $9 billion. Duncan, a prominent...
Beware of the Cowardly Deficit Vulture
There's an invasive species in our national discourse, a recent arrival in our civic forest.
Planet CEO vs. Planet Worker
Remember the Great Recession? For most Americans, it's an unforgettable nightmare that lives on. But for the CEO's of some of our nation's biggest companies, it's a distant memory. These...