Americans want what 21st century politics has so far not delivered: real options for challenging concentrated wealth. The latest evidence. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_6777" align="alignright" width="375"] New research from...
We’ll only make real progress against the absence of wealth at the bottom of our economic order, a new global campaign declares, if we confront the concentration of wealth at...
As inequality worsens, rich parents have more to lose from any upward mobility of their children's competitors. By Lars Osberg The 1 percent already live in a separate world of...
America’s most powerful economic policy maker dramatically charges that inequality is choking off opportunity for average families. Political candidates across the nation pay absolutely no attention. [caption id="attachment_6737" align="alignright" width="269"]...
Declining public investment in basic scientific research undermines the nation's future. By Sheila Suess Kennedy I recently came across a newspaper clipping about a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
Income gaps and wealth concentration go hand in hand, new global stats make clear. With one exception. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_6723" align="alignright" width="217"] The latest Credit Suisse Research Institute...
A landmark new study has laid bare the dirty little secret of modern American philanthropy: America's wealthy don't particularly care all that much about the rest of us. By Sam...
America's super rich today actually hold more wealth than their counterparts back in 1918, the year Forbes first took a stab at identifying the nation’s grandest fortunes. By Bob Lord...
Forbes has just released its latest list of America's wealthiest 400. The new numbers on these grand fortunes don't just stagger the imagination. They stagger common sense. By Sam Pizzigati...
