Teacher Bashing: The Inequality Psychology
In any society where wealth concentrates at the top, the affluent will almost always come to sneer at public services and the men and women who provide them. [caption id="attachment_4557"...
Research & Commentary
From academics to activists, thoughtful people worldwide are focusing their attention on economic inequality as never before.
How to End Hard Times? Reduce Inequality
A new report from a United Nations group details how low inequality promotes economic growth — and blasts away at a status quo where the most profitable firms end up...
More than 46 Million Americans Still in Poverty
According to Census Bureau figures released today, 15 percent of the US population lives in poverty. In 2011, more than 46 million Americans lived below a poverty line that was...
We Won the War on Poverty, then Lost the Peace
When President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a war on poverty in January 1964, the poverty rate was over 19 percent. By 1972 it had fallen to less than 12 percent,...
Online Education’s Lucrative New Bottom Line
Corporate execs and billionaire ideologues are creating — at taxpayer expense — a network of schools where learning takes a back seat. The sounds of September: school bells ringing, looseleaf...
Forget the Polls: Obama Is the Odds-On Favorite to Win in November
According to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, the November presidential election is a dead heat between Democratic incumbent Barrack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. The late August CBS News poll ] had Obama ahead by...
Who’s Really Winning the Smartphone Wars?
In our current economic and political environment, we’re letting top executives of giant corporations expropriate public 'property' for private gain. By Sam Pizzigati Why do CEOs make so much? Do...
How to Safely Scale Down the Fiscal Cliff
Pundits pounced earlier this year when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned that the country will face a "massive fiscal cliff" at the beginning of 2013. It seemed we had...
A Bold New Labor Call for a ‘Maximum Wage’
The leader of one of America's feistiest unions is aiming to expand the economic fairness debate. He's proposing a cap on incomes at the top that rises only if incomes...
To End the Jobs Recession, Invest an Extra $20 Billion in Public Education
The late-2000s economic recession officially ended in 2009 when a barrage of federal stimulus spending overwhelmed the slowing economy and pushed it back into growth. Over the past three years,...