Policy

Hillary Clinton's take on what to do about inequality is weaker than Canadian hot sauce.

A master economic narrative, financed by big business, shamelessly controls our politics. By Larry Checco [caption id="attachment_8716" align="alignright" width="276"] The prevailing American narrative about the economy is financed by big,...

The President's populist budget will leave Republicans scrambling to explain why they don't support it.

The President's speech included policy proposals that would have a big impact on reducing inequality.

Right out of the blocks, House Democrats are pushing a tax reform in the 114th Congress that responds to public concerns over the persistently wide gaps between CEO and worker pay.

The 2015 Congressional spending bill was a holiday giveaway to special interests. [caption id="attachment_7688" align="alignright" width="300"] In the 2015 spending bill, Congress spread holiday cheer to the 1 percent.[/caption] By...

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has just released its latest appraisal of America’s income breakdown. Whatever yardstick you use, the CBO shows, the rich are winning. Big. By Sam Pizzigati...

Many individuals helped construct neoclassical economics, often with financial support from the robber barons and their successors. French economist Thomas Piketty has proposed a grand model of inequality and growth....

Piketty is not the first to propose a grand model of inequality and growth. In Thomas Piketty’s doomsday model, slowing of growth in the twenty-first century will cause an inexorable...