Wealth Concentration

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,...

Press accounts about ‘lower than previously believed’ corporate earnings have painted a misleading picture. Corporate profits remain at high levels. And taxes on these corporate profits are running lower than...

If two words can capture the extraordinary redistribution of wealth from workers to the wealthy over the past forty years, the flagrant shamelessness of contemporary conspicuous consumption, the privatization of...

In today's anything-goes political fundraising world, the nation’s super rich and their favored politicos are no longer even going through the motions of maintaining 'separate and independent' campaigns. By Sam...

The headlines this summer are full of gloom and doom about the upcoming 2012-2013 school year. Schools are closing. Teachers are being laid off. State and local governments are cutting...

The movers and shakers of scandal-ridden Wall Street are busy scapegoating a 'few rotten apples' — and hoping the rest of us don't notice they're still holding billions in ill-gotten...