From academics to activists, thoughtful people worldwide are focusing their attention on economic inequality as never before.
Billionaire cash contributions have been cascading into America's most troubled school districts. Unfortunately, so have billionaire perspectives on education. Philanthropists can be bullies. They can — and do — use...
America's contemporary rich, new IRS data show, didn't quite match their all-time income record in 2008. But they scored their second-highest showing ever, despite the Great Recession. Their average income:...
Government must stop doling out ever-larger tax breaks to the super-rich and vast corporations. Have you heard? America is broke, according to many governors and lawmakers. They're calling for deep cuts...
Researchers at the Deloitte global financial consulting group are calculating that the U.S. millionaire share of world millionaire wealth will actually increase over the next decade. Deloitte LLP has just...
Real policy wonks bore people. The phony wonk from Wisconsin now driving Congress seduces, with a patter that leaves our wealthy almost completely disappeared. Rep. Paul Ryan from Wisconsin revels...
America's top bankers and CEO's don't have any more talent than millions of other Americans. They do have, two timely new data dumps remind us, plenty of generous friends in...
Why do Swedes and citizens of other relatively equal nations take their lives at a higher rate than residents of more unequal nations? Four investigators have tapped a wealth of...
The data in the latest executive compensation survey from the AFL-CIO effectively debunk the justifications for excessive pay that come from CEO flacks — and buttress the Dodd-Frank reform act provision that requires major firms to disclose the pay ratio between their top execs and typical workers.
We’ve come to expect, here early in the 21st century, that business will abuse workers, at every opportunity. We’ve watched corporate leaders downsize and outsource, slash benefits, raid pension funds,...
Growing economic inequality, new research details, is translating into an ever greater achievement gap in America's classrooms. His vitally important central finding: That achievement gap most certainly — and most...
