Wealth Concentration

An independent British commission has just demolished the defenses that overpaid executives and their flacks have advanced to justify why executives today merit so much more than their counterparts a...

A conservative U.S. senator has released a new study on federal giveaways to America's rich. Our plutocrats won't like it. But the indictment actually misses the biggest handout of them...

Just 40 years ago, most Americans rubbed elbows with neighbors from a fairly wide cross-section of income levels. But today's rich, Census data show, are keeping everyone else at arm's...

The Census Bureau recently released a highly-anticipated report suggesting ways to improve the measurement of poverty in America. It found that adjusting for medical expenses, the value of benefits payments,...

All sorts of financial experts have been tallying how much net worth is sloshing in the pockets of the world's most spectacularly wealthy. When will the time finally come to...

Not the 99 percent. We've let the cheerleaders for the richest among us get away with myths about mobility for much, much too long. Mobility, apologists for America's grand fortunes...

All sorts of federal agencies publish income inequality data. But only the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office directly takes on America's income inequality deniers. Back in 1979, America’s most affluent 1...

Researchers have just published a first-ever ranking of U.S. metro areas by number of super rich households they host. Residents of the top ten ultra-rich cities, the researchers seem to...

Students of modest means must pay a stiff price to build their capacity to contribute to society — and pay interest if they can't afford that price. A wealth tax...