Wealth Concentration

Where will this century's jobs come from? What can we do about youth unemployment and underemployment? How can today's developed countries maintain their labor standards and environmental laws in the...

Private wealth management groups continue to survey the holdings of the rich. These rich, the data make plain, are holding an ever greater share of the world's bounty. For the...

House Republicans, with help from Wall Street-friendly Democrats, are rushing to repeal the most promising Dodd-Frank Act check on excessive executive pay. You won't believe their rationale. [caption id="attachment_5458" align="alignright"...

How unequal have we become in the United States? Why are we so unequal? In our current globalized economy, is a more equal America even plausible? Growing Apart, a new...

Let's place private corporations with government contracts under surveillance — to make sure no one is getting rich off our tax dollars. Only 23 percent of Americans, says a new...

The CEOs with the corporate lobby group 'Fix the Debt' are pushing a 'tax reform' that could almost instantly cost the federal treasury as much as $173 billion. Pirates plunder....

In America politicians and the press talk endlessly about the declining middle class. Indeed,  as the latest data show, middle America has been shrinking since the 1970s. Yet while the...

America's deep pockets, a new report shows, are saving big bucks from a wide assortment of federal income tax breaks. They're saving even more from the absence of a wealth...

Who is responsible for inequality?  Is it the 1 percent, soaking up the lion’s share of national income and wealth?  Or the failure of people in the 99% to boost...