Wealth Concentration

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...

In 2011, Willard M. Romney and Ann D. Romney reported an adjusted gross income of $13,696,951 via tax returns that were highly skewed - both literally and figuratively. Literally, the...

Federal regulators have actually been cracking down somewhat lately on financial industry fraud. But the power-suited executives responsible for that fraud are still paying no personal price. What should we,...

Mitt Romney and I both grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a wealthy suburb of Detroit.  For much of our childhoods, we were represented in Congress by a tireless defender...

A new Cleveland Fed study details the declining share of U.S. national income that comes from the labor we do and the rising share of national income that comes from...

In real life, working hard only takes you so far. Those who go all the way — to grand fortune — typically get a substantial head start. So documents a...

Understandably in these difficult times, much of the reporting on the Chicago teachers' strike has focused on teachers' pay. Most influentially, reporting from The New York Times strongly implies that...