Wealth Concentration

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"...

Equal pay for equal work? We still haven't arrived at that destination. Decent pay that reflects the dignity of all who labor? In today's America, we've barely begun that journey....

Those arrows aren't hitting their lovelorn targets the way they once did. The reason? New research points to our growing economic divide. [caption id="attachment_6104" align="alignright" width="300"] Cupid would likely have...

We already have the necessary technology — technology that can create more and better jobs How can the world attain a decent, sustainable lifestyle, one that doesn’t wreck our land,...

In the fierce debate over our top-heavy distribution of income and wealth, egalitarians have vanquished both inequality's deniers and defenders. Now the debate is shifting to the most pivotal question of all.

Why the 2014 State of the Union action agenda won't take us nearly as far as we need to go. The political profile of economic inequality in America has certainly...

At the annual retreat of our global elites, the world’s wealthy wring their hands over the widening inequality they so relentlessly widen. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_6048" align="alignright" width="300"] At...

Those Americans struggling against poverty in the 1960s had plenty of obstacles in their way. We have more. They operated in a functioning democracy. We live, by contrast, in deeply...

In the year ahead, nurses and college students just might jump-start the struggle against America's chronic — and growing — income inequality. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_5983" align="alignright" width="300"] Students...