Wealth Concentration

Our campaign finance system isn’t just sending us toward a new Gilded Age — it's a new Platinum Age.

In America's unequal society, there are many reasons for embarrassment. Here are five of them. By Paul Buchheit [caption id="attachment_9469" align="alignright" width="300"] Credit: America Aljazeera[/caption] America has experienced "gush-up" rather...

Canadians view public transit as a vital public utility whereas Americans view it as a social welfare program. By Sheila Suess Kennedy [caption id="attachment_9455" align="alignright" width="300"] Credit: theamericangenius.com[/caption] Some years...

Amidst the frenzy of the 2016 Presidential election, let us not forget the importance of local politics. By Sheila Suess Kennedy Our televisions and Internet feeds are rapidly filling with...

The federal Securities and Exchange Commission has just given Americans an official yardstick for measuring corporate CEO greed. The sourest person in the nation’s capital today just may have been...

In India, major corporations now have to disclose their CEO and median worker pay. This disclosure could be a CEO pay game changer. Over the past five years, new data...

In any society where great stashes of wealth amass at the top, philosopher Elizabeth Anderson reminds us, the wealthy will sooner or later see most of the rest of us as failures.

Those who seek to privatize everything have a five-step process. By Paul Buchheit [caption id="attachment_9329" align="alignright" width="300"] Credit: Common Dreams[/caption] Law enforcement, education, health care, water management, government itself --...

The decline of unions precipitated the rise of the underground economy. By Claire Goldstene  In 2014, slightly over 11 percent of American workers were union members, as compared to 20...