Wealth Concentration

In the wake of the Greek elections the new Greek government has reaffirmed its commitment to the austerity plan that got the old Greek government thrown out of office.  While...

The Federal Reserve has once again counted up America's personal wealth — and omitted the nation's 400 richest from the final tally. But the new figures, even with that omission,...

All those millions that America's billionaires are pouring into super PACs, where do they come from? We can trace a huge chunk of that political cash to the truly massive...

The fundamental problem in the eurozone is not the Greek debt crisis.  It's not the undercapitalization of Spanish banks.  It's not the weakness of the Dutch and Italian governments or...

Sugary soft drinks, as Michael Bloomberg reminds us, do our nation no good. But if we really want to narrow our waistbands, we’re going to have to narrow the income...

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...