By socializing access to health insurance, the Affordable Care Act improved both our economic and moral health. By Sheila Suess Kennedy [caption id="attachment_7190" align="alignright" width="300"] The Affordable Care Act demonstrates...
The more wealth concentrates, the greater the strain on our biosphere. Top environmentalists get that connection. Now our societies must. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_6671" align="alignright" width="300"] A scene from...
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...
Teenagers are learning lessons — about inequality — on America's high school gridirons. When are their elders going to catch on? [caption id="attachment_6652" align="alignright" width="270"] Income inequality will go a...
Education is a good thing – just don’t expect it to solve the problem of rising income inequality anytime soon. By Lars Osberg [caption id="attachment_7055" align="alignright" width="220"] Increased educational attainment...
The ‘average’ U.S. family is doing just fine, suggests the Federal Reserve's latest triennial portrait of household wealth. But typical Americans are struggling. Could both be true? By Sam Pizzigati...
America's top central bankers didn't make time for inequality at their annual hobnob last week. Over in Germany, Nobel Prize winners in economics did. But few Americans noticed. By Sam...
The foreclosure epidemic illustrates a problem that is far larger and more pervasive than current banking practices: America’s growing power imbalance. By Sheila Suess Kennedy Recently, I served on the...
Each year, American workers are robbed of far more money in wage theft than bank, convenience store, street, and gas station robberies combined. By Robert J.S. Ross Each week, millions...
