Wealth Concentration

From hiking trails in Oregon to boardrooms in Berlin, critics of our staggeringly unequal corporate order are calling for limits that link executive compensation to worker paychecks By Sam Pizzigati...

. . . we would have a fascinating, first-hand history of the roller-coaster first century of federal income taxation. By Sam Pizzigati The modern federal income tax turns 100 this...

Social Security is the bedrock entitlement program that directly supports over 56 million Americans. That's over 18 percent of the population. If you're receiving Social Security, you know that Social...

How do unequal societies solve the problems — like traffic congestion — that make us miserable? They come up with solutions that make life easier for rich people.

All those millions that CEOs and hedge fund managers have grabbed over recent decades? Our current tax code won't let us grab them back. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_4945" align="alignright"...

For decades neoclassical economists have asserted the inevitable logic of international convergence. Excess investment flows from rich countries to poor countries while excess labor flows from poor countries to rich...

Over the past thirty years we've been brainwashed to believe that corporations should serve only themselves.  We have come to accept that they have no responsibilities to anyone other than...

Some of today's most greedy are running giant multinational corporations. Some are just running their mouths. Their stories remind us just how much needs to change, economically and politically, in...

Medicare is broken. Medicare spending is out of control. Medicare will go bankrupt in 2024. If we don't act soon, Medicare will bankrupt the entire country. Wrong, wrong, wrong, and...