Some ‘Old’ News for a Newly Elected Congress
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has just released its latest appraisal of America’s income breakdown. Whatever yardstick you use, the CBO shows, the rich are winning. Big. By Sam Pizzigati...
Research & Commentary
From academics to activists, thoughtful people worldwide are focusing their attention on economic inequality as never before.
If It Looks Like Employment, It Probably Is
The day is dawning when misclassified workers will regain the rights and privileges of employment. By David Bensman [caption id="attachment_7443" align="alignright" width="300"] Misclassifying workers as independent contractors saves employers about...
Leave No Generation Behind
A tax on inherited wealth could eliminate student debt while reducing growing inequality. Over a decade ago, I got a call from Bill Gates. Not the Bill Gates you’re probably...
A Forgotten Lesson: It’s the Economy, Stupid
Progressives should take a lesson from President Clinton's 1992 campaign: it's still the economy, stupid. By Sheila Suess Kennedy [caption id="attachment_7411" align="alignright" width="291"] Strategist James Carville famously coined this phrase,...
Wall Street Profits from Poor Neighborhoods
Wealthy investors have made poor neighborhoods into a highly lucrative enterprise for the 1 percent. By Brett Williams For the last three years I’ve been following young people born in...
The Peasants Still Have Their Pitchforks
Americans want what 21st century politics has so far not delivered: real options for challenging concentrated wealth. The latest evidence. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_6777" align="alignright" width="375"] New research from...
Why the Rich Hate Popular Democracy
Genuine democracy not only includes everyone, it's good for everyone. By Sheila Suess Kennedy Paul Krugman has a knack for telling it like it is. His recent column in The...
A Bold New Drive to Recast the War on Want
We’ll only make real progress against the absence of wealth at the bottom of our economic order, a new global campaign declares, if we confront the concentration of wealth at...
The Predicament of ‘One Percent’ Parents
As inequality worsens, rich parents have more to lose from any upward mobility of their children's competitors. By Lars Osberg The 1 percent already live in a separate world of...
Democracy Lite: All Form and No Substance
America’s most powerful economic policy maker dramatically charges that inequality is choking off opportunity for average families. Political candidates across the nation pay absolutely no attention. [caption id="attachment_6737" align="alignright" width="269"]...