From academics to activists, thoughtful people worldwide are focusing their attention on economic inequality as never before.
Declining public investment in basic scientific research undermines the nation's future. By Sheila Suess Kennedy I recently came across a newspaper clipping about a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
Income gaps and wealth concentration go hand in hand, new global stats make clear. With one exception. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_6723" align="alignright" width="217"] The latest Credit Suisse Research Institute...
A landmark new study has laid bare the dirty little secret of modern American philanthropy: America's wealthy don't particularly care all that much about the rest of us. By Sam...
America's super rich today actually hold more wealth than their counterparts back in 1918, the year Forbes first took a stab at identifying the nation’s grandest fortunes. By Bob Lord...
Forbes has just released its latest list of America's wealthiest 400. The new numbers on these grand fortunes don't just stagger the imagination. They stagger common sense. By Sam Pizzigati...
By socializing access to health insurance, the Affordable Care Act improved both our economic and moral health. By Sheila Suess Kennedy [caption id="attachment_7190" align="alignright" width="300"] The Affordable Care Act demonstrates...
The more wealth concentrates, the greater the strain on our biosphere. Top environmentalists get that connection. Now our societies must. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_6671" align="alignright" width="300"] A scene from...
Over the past thirty years, income has grown much faster for the top 1 percent than for everyone else. By Lars Osberg [caption id="attachment_7137" align="alignright" width="150"] The incomes of the...
A new G.I. Bill would go a long way towards making the lives of poor Americans—and by extension our nation—better. By Sheila Suess Kennedy There are a number of policy...
Teenagers are learning lessons — about inequality — on America's high school gridirons. When are their elders going to catch on? [caption id="attachment_6652" align="alignright" width="270"] Income inequality will go a...
