From academics to activists, thoughtful people worldwide are focusing their attention on economic inequality as never before.
The 2015 Congressional spending bill was a holiday giveaway to special interests. [caption id="attachment_7688" align="alignright" width="300"] In the 2015 spending bill, Congress spread holiday cheer to the 1 percent.[/caption] By...
The debasement of faculty labor over the past decade is really a battle over what happens inside the classroom. By Claire Goldstene [caption id="attachment_7608" align="alignright" width="300"] Adjunct unionization is on...
Billions of taxpayer dollars are now going — as ‘incentives’ — to corporations busy stuffing the pockets of America’s richest billionaires. By Philip Mattera [caption id="attachment_7593" align="alignright" width="300"] Intel alone,...
This year’s all-stars of avarice range in age from thirty-somethings to nearly octogenarian status. They’re all doing their best to keep our world a staggeringly unequal place. By Sam Pizzigati...
As protesters march through our cities, a new study dramatizes that at the heart of our racially fractured society is a hidden system of racial wealth inequalities. The marches in...
A coming shortage of highly skilled labor is likely to create new kinds of social disparities. By Sheila Suess Kennedy Recently, a German economist predicted a significant worldwide labor shortage...
The reality of poor Americans' lives is far more complex than cultural stereotypes suggest. By Sheila Suess Kennedy [caption id="attachment_7539" align="alignright" width="166"] Despite evidence to the contrary, the myth of...
New research and on-the-ground reality are shredding what little credibility the rationalizers of inequality have left. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_6855" align="alignright" width="398"] New research co-authored by former World Bank...
America’s 400 richest are collecting far more of the nation’s income than they did two generations ago — and paying Uncle Sam far less. To fudge these facts, pals of...
Though Republicans often feign nostalgia for the 1950s, they are actually more nostalgic for the Gilded Age. By Claire Goldstene [caption id="attachment_7472" align="alignright" width="300"] At least since Ronald Reagan, the...
