The Dizzying Racial Wealth Divide The billionaires that make up the “Forbes 400” list have as much wealth as the entire African-American population of the U.S., over 41 million people,...
The wealth possessed by America's 400 richest billionaires now equals the collective net worth of all the nation's African-American households. By Bob Lord [caption id="attachment_6053" align="alignright" width="300"] Dr. Martin Luther...
One hundred eighty years after abolishing slavery, the United Kingdom is coming clean about fortunes founded on slave ownership and the slave trade. While it took a bloody civil war...
Rising inequality, newly released data make plain, has left America's metro areas — and neighborhoods — considerably less mixed by income. Are the rich about to bid the rest of...
Just before the election, the satirical web site The Onion ran a fake article that was purportedly written by Barack Obama. In it, the president supposedly promised to seek payments...
Far too many Americans still see poverty and poor people through a racial prism that distorts demographic realities — and undermines efforts to narrow income inequality.
The recession has been hard on everyone. Tens of millions of people lost their jobs. Many of those who didn't lose their jobs suffered salary cuts. Retirement savings and home...
New data has solidified New York's standing as the most unequal major city in the world's most unequal developed nation. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed ban on super-sized sodas...
This election season is full of laments about how polarized American politics has become. Extreme right-wing Republicans claim they can't see eye to eye with extreme left-wing Democrats. Politicians are...
