Wealth Concentration

Your wealth won’t save you from the collapse you fear. Your only real solution: Bring your wealth home and invest in community resilience to ensure the survival of all. Originally...

The data is in: Shared growth, not top-heavy growth, helps the poor. Two months ago, in Equality for Taxi Drivers and Surgeons, I challenged the logic of Illinois professor Deirdre...

Love Thomas Piketty, but don't have the time for his brick of a book? Here's the perfect pocket-sized reader to get you up to speed on what all the inequality hype...

Right-wingers are celebrating a deeply depressing new history of those rare moments where distributions of wealth have become significantly more equal.

A veteran executive compensation analyst provides ammunition for shareholder activists fighting to crack down on excessive executive pay.

Ignore the hyping of Dow 20,000 and other market gyrations. Only the affluent are really benefiting from rising share prices. Originally published by US News and World Report. Champagne bottles...

Infrastructure spending should benefit the public good, but Donald Trump’s plan benefits private interests at the expense of the rest of us.  One of the very worst ideas getting championed by...

New study shows growing divide in Texas’s most populous county. The world knows Houston as a major hub for oil and gas and the home of America’s space program. What...

People who lose their jobs tend to cut back on their household spending. But in a starkly unequal economy they won’t be the only ones to cut back deeply.