World’s 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%
The growing concentration of the world’s wealth has been highlighted by a report showing that the 26 richest billionaires own...
The growing concentration of the world’s wealth has been highlighted by a report showing that the 26 richest billionaires own...
Donald Trump tells us the US economy is “absolutely booming”, the “strongest we’ve ever had” and “the greatest in the...
I have no idea how well Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will perform as a member of Congress. But her election is already...
As House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) delivered his farewell address on Wednesday after 20 years of relentlessly working to gut social programs for the...
An interesting thing about politics is how you can distill so many nuanced policies down to a few core ideological...
What will happen if the blue wave in the midterm elections falls short? Clearly, at this point it still might: Democrats...
Donald Trump is deliberately forcing millions of Americans into financial ruin, cruelly depriving them of food and other basic protections...
The first comprehensive study of the massive pay gap between the US executive suite and average workers has found that...
Hundreds of low-wage workers, faith leaders, civil rights organizers and liberal activists were arrested in demonstrations in Washington and in...
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is proposing to increase rent for millions of low-income tenants in government-subsidized housing and impose stricter...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tore into Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Thursday, ripping the former neurosurgeon for...
WASHINGTON ― Sen. Bernie Sanders’ televised town hall on economic inequality drew about 1.7 million live viewers during an online...
The rapid rise of oligarchy and wealth and income inequality is the great moral, economic, and political issue of our...
The world’s richest 1 percent raked in 82 percent of the wealth created last year, according to a new report...
The Republican Party that controls all branches of our federal government recently decided that the most important thing they could...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) slammed Senate Republicans’ bill to repeal Obamacare as a “barbaric” plan that means thousands will die...
Wednesday’s big news on Wall Street wasn’t that for yet another year its average wage and bonuses put finance employees...
Shortly after the Trump administration unveiled its controversial budget proposal for 2018, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) totally dismantled the plan...
Paul Ryan seems kind of surprised Tucker didn’t get the memo… Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it...
WASHINGTON — Financial inequality became even wider in the United States last year, with average income for the top 1...
The American people have a deep sense of fairness. We are angry about the growing pay gap between the top...
The great American middle class has become an anxious class – and it’s in revolt. Before I explain how that...
In the America of haves and have-nots, fewer folks are “movin’ on up” like George Jefferson of the classic sitcom....
A group of 20 Florida Democrats took the “Minimum Wage Challenge” and attempted to live on the state’s minimum wage...
Despite stagnating wages and vast income inequality, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said technological advancements in cars and cellphones mean...
On April 30, 2012, Edward Conard, a former partner for the financial management company Bain Capital and a multimillionaire who...
The widening gap between haves and have-nots in much of the developed world not only raises concerns about the fraying...
A study recently released by the Pell Institute for the Study of Higher Education shows that not only is the...
Instead of their usual diatribe about class warfare, or denying the existence of inequality, Republican leaders are suddenly talking up...
Nearly every week there is some major conference on the subject of inequality. They are often led by prominent people,...
We feature our April 2014 interview with Matt Taibbi about his book, “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of...
We don’t know who exactly filed the tax returns with America’s 400 largest incomes in 2010. The IRS won’t reveal...
What can we expect Congress to do about America’s staggeringly top-heavy concentration of income and wealth over the next two...
BURLINGTON, Vt. – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said a new report that paychecks are shrinking and half of all...
Income inequality is killing the economy. Retailers, bankers and Democrats agree on that. Really. It’s only Republicans who continue to...
Raising the federal minimum wage would save the government billions and have sweeping benefits for low-income families, according to a...
You know inequality is getting bad when it’s making a Swiss bank uncomfortable. The ratio of wealth to household income...
Imagine yourself part of the typical American family. Your household would have, the Federal Reserve reported last month, a net...
For a long time, the right has argued that we shouldn’t worry about inequality because the true concern is the...
Every August, for most of the last four decades, top central bankers from around the world have been making their...
(CNN) — Does money make you happy? Does being rich contribute to your spiritual life and its possibilities? Is the...
While wages have declined across all sectors in the years following the financial crash of 2008, low-paid workers have been...
What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society. Does anyone seriously...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Economists have long argued that a rising wealth gap has complicated the U.S. rebound from the Great...
The Commerce Department released some revised figures on America’s economy last week. Previous numbers, Commerce researchers noted, had overestimated the...