From academics to activists, thoughtful people worldwide are focusing their attention on economic inequality as never before.
The chase after ever cheaper sites for manufacturing is causing rising inequality, low-wage misery, and unsafe workplaces in many parts of the world, the United States included. [caption id="attachment_6448" align="alignright"...
The CEOs of America's 20 largest restaurant chains must be providing diners some mighty fine service. Their 'performance' is costing Uncle Sam nearly a quarter-billion dollars a year. By Sam...
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to demonstrate the link between inequality and catastrophic environmental change. But a little help from rocket scientists can certainly help.
Pundits and political scientists are always searching for that simple theory that'll explain just what makes our politics tick. Where should they be looking? How about in the eyes of...
Pundits usually have income in mind when they talk about the top 1 percent. And analysts sometimes rank our richest by wealth. But if we really want to understand privilege,...
A middle class family will spend an extra dollar in the local economy and spur growth. A very wealthy family, instead of circulating an extra dollar in the local economy,...
Baseball’s top hitter and Wall Street power suits both ply their trades in a high-speed world. That hitter will make over a quarter-billion in the next decade. The top suits...
We get what we measure. And if we measure inequality with a yardstick only policy wonks can decipher, we’ll end up with a society too confused about inequality to do much about it.
Heiress Bunny Mellon didn't promise us a rose garden. She gave us one. We would have been better off with more equality instead. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_6233" align="alignright" width="300"]...
