Income for Me, Wealth for We
We all contribute to the creation of wealth. Yet we let the wealth created settle in the pockets of a few. A simple but fundamental change in the source of...
Research & Commentary
From academics to activists, thoughtful people worldwide are focusing their attention on economic inequality as never before.
The Real Secrets to Grand Fortune
The moneymaking techniques today generating mega millions and more, the global business analyst Sam Wilkin is wittily making plain, almost all rest on schemes for defeating the forces of honest...
6 Facts About Corporate Tax Avoidance
The facts on state-by-state corporate tax avoidance reveal that people across the country are losing revenues that should be going to education and infrastructure. By Paul Buchheit [caption id="attachment_9650" align="alignright"...
How to Make Bad Jobs Good 101
Whether industrial or service, jobs become “good” only because of coordinated pressure from workers. Current campaigns across the United States to unionize service workers reflect a decades-long transformation, as service-sector employment...
Popes, Post-Partisanship, and Prisons
We all want a piece of the pope—or at least a piece of the Pope-a-Palooza. Here in DC, our hysteria greets the Catholic [caption id="attachment_9596" align="alignright" width="300"] Pope Francis...
Fair Housing in an Unfair Society
In deeply unequal communities, phenomena like gentrification are forcing us to rethink principles of social change that we used to consider axiomatic. By Peter Marcuse [caption id="attachment_9548" align="alignright" width="400"] Amid...
Executive Excess 2015: Money to Burn
This report reveals how our CEO pay system rewards executives for deepening the global climate crisis. By Sarah Anderson, Sam Pizzigati, and Chuck Collins This report reveals how our CEO...
In Search of Our First Trillionaire
No 13-digit fortune has yet appeared on the horizon. But if we wait until we get close enough to see one, warns wealth analyst Bob Lord, we may find our...
Why Black Men Run From the Police
A good, hard look at the statistics will tell you why African Americans have reason to fear an encounter with police. It’s never much of a surprise when I hear...
Poor and Black People Still Left Behind
When President Obama arrives in New Orleans today, he will face a reckoning with his promises to help rebuild and restore the city. By Terrance Heath When President Obama visits...