Wealth Concentration

Amid fierce fiscal austerity, a borough in London is doing battle to level up the poor and level down the rich. Imagine if a borough in New York tried something...

If we grow apart as we grow economically, new research suggests, we will never grow happier.

Federal agencies are now preparing new regulations for enforcing the banker pay reforms enacted last summer. These new regs, says the AFL-CIO, need to prohibit the 'incentive' that's still stuffing...

From a top financial analyst group, more evidence that the human race has never been richer. So why are governments forcing austerity on so many of the world's peoples? “2010...

The American middle class, concludes a new white paper from the ad industry's top trade journal, has essentially become irrelevant. The chain-smoking ad agency account execs of Mad Men, the...

A new United for a Fair Economy report, by standing our current state tax system on its head, is dramatizing the illogic of public service cutbacks. In this spring of...

Back in the mid 20th century, colleges and universities helped America beat down economic inequality. Now they reinforce it. The American Dream isn’t quite unfolding the way Richard Silva expected....

America's contemporary rich, new IRS data show, didn't quite match their all-time income record in 2008. But they scored their second-highest showing ever, despite the Great Recession. Their average income:...

Government must stop doling out ever-larger tax breaks to the super-rich and vast corporations.  Have you heard? America is broke, according to many governors and lawmakers. They're calling for deep cuts...