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...
In any society where wealth concentrates at the top, the affluent will almost always come to sneer at public services and the men and women who provide them. [caption id="attachment_4557"...
A new report from a United Nations group details how low inequality promotes economic growth — and blasts away at a status quo where the most profitable firms end up...
According to Census Bureau figures released today, 15 percent of the US population lives in poverty. In 2011, more than 46 million Americans lived below a poverty line that was...
When President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a war on poverty in January 1964, the poverty rate was over 19 percent. By 1972 it had fallen to less than 12 percent,...
Corporate execs and billionaire ideologues are creating — at taxpayer expense — a network of schools where learning takes a back seat. The sounds of September: school bells ringing, looseleaf...
According to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, the November presidential election is a dead heat between Democratic incumbent Barrack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. The late August CBS News poll ] had Obama ahead by...
In our current economic and political environment, we’re letting top executives of giant corporations expropriate public 'property' for private gain. By Sam Pizzigati Why do CEOs make so much? Do...
The late-2000s economic recession officially ended in 2009 when a barrage of federal stimulus spending overwhelmed the slowing economy and pushed it back into growth. Over the past three years,...
