Corporate Power

We could raise wages for millions of workers to $15 an hour, using the bonus money from Wall Street, and still have plenty of money leftover. Wall Street bonuses dipped...

This week’s edition of America’s top progressive weekly features a cover story that spotlights how we can ‘unrig the rules and reverse runaway inequality.’

Hollywood depicts the financial crisis in gripping detail, but doesn’t explain how to avoid a repeat.

100 CEOs have as much in retirement assets as 41 percent of all American families. By Scott Klinger and Sarah Anderson  This report, co-published by the Institute for Policy Studies...

Perhaps Phil Gramm could run a telethon to support ex-executives shamed for their fat retirement packages.

In a world with rising inequality, the World Bank should do a better job of measuring 'shared prosperity.' By Nick Galasso This piece is an adaptation of Nick’s recent article...

The financial industry’s 2014 bonuses doubled the combined earnings of all Americans who work full-time at the federal minimum wage.

A serious tax on financial industry high-rollers, says a new German study, would raise far more billions than previous estimates have assumed.

If redistribution is so terrible, why do our policy wonks pay so little attention to redistribution from poor to rich?