The 99 Percent Spring
The people aren't powerless in the face of extreme inequality. In the coming weeks, millions of Americans will take to the streets as part of the "99 percent spring," echoing...
Research & Commentary
From academics to activists, thoughtful people worldwide are focusing their attention on economic inequality as never before.
Global Struggles
Indigenous Peoples are Using Ancestral Organizing Practices to Fight Mining Corporations and Covid-19
Another Homerun for the Walloping Wealthy
Behind last week’s record-smashing $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a global economy that’s enriching only the world’s super rich. By Sam Pizzigati The Los Angeles Dodgers didn’t...
The Invisible Recession: How Forty Years of Stagnant Incomes Got Lost in the Shuffle
The recession is over. The US economy has been growing since July, 2009. In the final quarter of 2011 it grew at a 3% annual pace. Personal spending is up. ...
In Corporate America, Why Greed’s Never Good
On the eve of the release of the annual CEO pay survey reports, a look at the causes and consequences of chief executive pay spirals. By Salvatore Babones Why are...
Is Our Health Care Debate Just a Sideshow?
We obsess over health care in the United States, because we all want to be healthy. In the process, new evidence suggests, we're ignoring the social dynamics that actually determine...
Austerity is not the Answer; Employment is the Answer
In Greece the unemployment rate is 20%. In Spain it's 23%. In Portugal and Ireland the unemployment rate is 15%. Things in Europe are starting to look as bad as...
Should the Billionaire Club Start Paying Dues?
Austerity is spreading everywhere, but wealth, new data show, has become even more concentrated at the global economic summit. From Cairo to Palo Alto, even some conservatives are now talking...
Why Have Levels of Income Inequality Risen So Much?
The recession has been tough on many Americans. But the recession only started in 2008, and the statisticians at the National Bureau of Economic Research figure it ended in 2009. ...
Happy Days Here Again, 21st Century-Style
Great economic cataclysms have in the past knocked the super rich off their stride. Our Great Recession's deep pockets, new income data show, are bucking the historical tide. We can...
The Problem Isn’t Growth — The Problem Is Inequality
Commentators still talk about the Great Recession as if we're still in it. But according to semi-official statistics from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) the recession ended in...