Wealth Concentration

A perfectly respectable business panel is urging corporate boards to ditch the ridiculous rationalizations for CEO pay excess and narrow the gargantuan corporate pay gap. Step one: end CEO stock...

As California faces budget Armageddon, one of the programs on the endangered list is California's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, known as CalWORKs. Governor Brown proposes to cut...

Historically, austerity has always hit hardest on those who have the most to lose: the rich and powerful. Today's austerity has reversed that historic pattern -- and widened the gap...

New research has helped answer a nagging question among scientists who study population health: How much time has to elapse before a society growing more unequal will start paying the...

A string of surprising 'say on pay' votes has some executive pay critics sensing an impending revolution in corporate boardrooms. But that 'revolution' won't amount to much until CEO pay...

From Manhattan to Monaco, the world's super rich are fashioning themselves into a new global tribe of footloose and stateless. The rest of us get to gawk — and foot...

So few Americans are cheering America's rising productivity, a new report suggests, because so few Americans are sharing in the new wealth that boosts in productivity have been creating over...

Bits and bytes would be doing a lot more to help make our lives less nasty, brutish, and short if we shared wealth as routinely as bandwidth. From San Francisco,...

A new labor report reinforces the case for more transparency on the enormous gap between what CEOs take home and what they pay their workers. The AFL-CIO, America's national trade...