From academics to activists, thoughtful people worldwide are focusing their attention on economic inequality as never before.
Americans are gaining, ever so slowly, a more accurate picture of just how wide the gap has stretched between the nation's most fabulously privileged and everyone else. [caption id="attachment_5832" align="alignright"...
The American economy is growing. It's not roaring, but it's growing, and at a good pace. According to the latest figures from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, real US gross...
People who cut food stamps — and gut child labor laws — most all had empathy when they came into the world. So what squeezed the empathy out? Analysts are...
Fox News may have failed to have an impact on the outcome of the 2012 Presidential election in the United States, but media organizations controlled by Rupert Murdoch celebrated a...
America's top execs don't have the time to party. They're too busy waging a corporate holy war against what may be the most promising check yet on executive pay excess....
A tiny tax on global personal wealth over $1 million could ensure that no child anywhere on the planet has to live in extreme poverty. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_5767"...
If the Supreme Court chooses to erase our remaining post-Watergate campaign finance reforms, Richard Nixon's scandalous reign may come to seem — thanks to growing inequality — mere kid's play....
Executives at private companies with federal contracts are getting rich off our tax dollars — at the expense of their low-wage workers. But we can turn the tables. Here's how....
Exactly a hundred years ago, decades of progressive struggle finally paid off and outfitted America with a tool for braking the unlimited accumulation of grand private fortune. By Sam Pizzigati The...
From gated communities in outer space to graphs about who owns the wealth, two new films are giving Americans a window into the issue of income inequality Matt Damon...
