The ‘New Normal’ of Unbalanced Growth
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...
Income Distribution
A Better Yardstick for Measuring Inequality
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.
Washington’s Promiscuous Protectors of Privilege: A Congressional Inequality Report Card
Mitt Romney and I both grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a wealthy suburb of Detroit. For much of our childhoods, we were represented in Congress by a tireless defender...
The Other 99 Percent: How the U.S. Compares
The other 99 percent do far worse in the United States than in any other developed country. By Salvatore Babones In September 2011 the Occupy Wall Street movement grabbed the...