The Top 1 Percent and a Generous Uncle Sam
A conservative U.S. senator has released a new study on federal giveaways to America's rich. Our plutocrats won't like it. But the indictment actually misses the biggest handout of them...
Research & Commentary
From academics to activists, thoughtful people worldwide are focusing their attention on economic inequality as never before.
Our Affluent and the New Bunker Down
Just 40 years ago, most Americans rubbed elbows with neighbors from a fairly wide cross-section of income levels. But today's rich, Census data show, are keeping everyone else at arm's...
America’s Real Poverty Rate
The Census Bureau recently released a highly-anticipated report suggesting ways to improve the measurement of poverty in America. It found that adjusting for medical expenses, the value of benefits payments,...
The Global Super-Rich Stash: Now $25 Trillion
All sorts of financial experts have been tallying how much net worth is sloshing in the pockets of the world's most spectacularly wealthy. When will the time finally come to...
Centralized Labor Agreements in Finland: How Unions, Companies, and Government Can Work Together for a Better Society
Here in the United States, corporations treat their workers as adversaries. The role of management is to "keep costs down," which is another way of saying that it gets paid...
Preventing Another Women’s Wage Lost Decade
The gender gap in wages, new statistics show, has stopped narrowing. What's happening? Highly paid men, the few men at the very front of the line, have been taking almost...
For Corporate Elite, a 50 Percent Tax Discount
By statute, corporations are supposed to face a 35 percent income tax on their profits. Over the last three years, a new report reveals, corporations are paying at half that...
Rags to Riches: Who Should Really Care?
Not the 99 percent. We've let the cheerleaders for the richest among us get away with myths about mobility for much, much too long. Mobility, apologists for America's grand fortunes...
How to Make $30,000 a Day by Bankrupting Your Company: Jon Corzine and MF Global
In March 2010 former Goldman Sachs CEO, US Senator, and Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MF Global, a mid-tier investment bank. ...
America’s Tilt to the Top: The Deepest Stats Yet
All sorts of federal agencies publish income inequality data. But only the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office directly takes on America's income inequality deniers. Back in 1979, America’s most affluent 1...