Wealth Concentration

Almost every single U.S. state has seen a significant growth in income inequality since the late 1970s, documents a new study from two leading Washington, D.C. think tanks. But states,...

Americans today can take more than inspiration from the struggles against plutocracy that progressives waged years ago. They can take a host of still relevant — and cutting-edge — policy...

Yes, the poor have struggled mightily while our rich have become phenomenally flush. But middle-income Americans haven't been able to jump off the treadmill either. We’ve all heard plenty of...

An eloquent new call for a more egalitarian global future. Humanity, the London advocacy group Share the World’s Resources notes in its new gameplan for a more equal international order,...

Take all that post-election commentary about foolish billionaires and wasted millions in political contributions with a grain of salt. Our billionaires don't have to actually win on Election Day to...

Anyone who's ever driven in urban America has had the experience of waiting in a long line of stopped traffic while some jerk who thought he was too important to...

We've lost our manufacturing economy in the United States. Now we're losing our service economy. We're rapidly becoming, some observers fear, a 'servant economy.' By Sam Pizzigati Fire fighter, basketball...

We all know that the United States is the most unequal of the rich nations of the world.  Only relatively poor countries like Malaysia and Mexico have levels of inequality...

Americans haven't heard much at all from Joe the Plumber this election cycle. A shame. Without his rants against sharing the wealth, no one's bothering to debate how desperately America...