The chase after ever cheaper sites for manufacturing is causing rising inequality, low-wage misery, and unsafe workplaces in many parts of the world, the United States included. [caption id="attachment_6448" align="alignright"...
The CEOs of America's 20 largest restaurant chains must be providing diners some mighty fine service. Their 'performance' is costing Uncle Sam nearly a quarter-billion dollars a year. By Sam...
Pundits usually have income in mind when they talk about the top 1 percent. And analysts sometimes rank our richest by wealth. But if we really want to understand privilege,...
We get what we measure. And if we measure inequality with a yardstick only policy wonks can decipher, we’ll end up with a society too confused about inequality to do much about it.
Heiress Bunny Mellon didn't promise us a rose garden. She gave us one. We would have been better off with more equality instead. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_6233" align="alignright" width="300"]...
How concentrated has America’s wealth become? In the not-so-distant future, if current trends continue, a mere handful of Americans will together hold over $1 trillion in wealth. By Bob Lord...
The chase after the global super rich is leaving the world's choicest cities nastier places to live for anyone without a grand fortune. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_6213" align="alignright" width="300"]...
Let's learn from our not-so-distant past and share the gold. New technologies don't have to bring us new inequalities. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_6196" align="alignright" width="300"] A quarter-century ago, Tim...
Why should moving data around be any different from moving people? No private party ought to be getting rich off a basic public trust. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_6146" align="alignright"...
