Tucker Carlson Just Now Realizing Republicans Hate Poor People
Paul Ryan seems kind of surprised Tucker didn’t get the memo… Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it...
Category: Inequality
U.S. income gap widened last year as top 1 percent gained most
WASHINGTON — Financial inequality became even wider in the United States last year, with average income for the top 1...
How America’s Superrich Are Cutting the Lifespan of the Poor
The American people have a deep sense of fairness. We are angry about the growing pay gap between the top...
The Revolt of the Middle Class
The great American middle class has become an anxious class – and it’s in revolt. Before I explain how that...
How the United States Transformed Into a ‘Dual Economy’ and What Can Be Done
In the America of haves and have-nots, fewer folks are “movin’ on up” like George Jefferson of the classic sitcom....
Florida Legislators Take the ‘Minimum Wage Challenge’ and Fail
A group of 20 Florida Democrats took the “Minimum Wage Challenge” and attempted to live on the state’s minimum wage...
Wall Street Mouthpiece Jamie Dimon Defends Income Inequality
Despite stagnating wages and vast income inequality, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said technological advancements in cars and cellphones mean...
Trickle-down economics hollowed out the middle class. It’s time to stop listening to the architects of inequality
On April 30, 2012, Edward Conard, a former partner for the financial management company Bain Capital and a multimillionaire who...
Report: Rising inequality hurts economic growth
The widening gap between haves and have-nots in much of the developed world not only raises concerns about the fraying...
Study: Gap between Richest and Poorest Students Finishing College Increasing
A study recently released by the Pell Institute for the Study of Higher Education shows that not only is the...
Republicans Suddenly “Concerned” About Inequality
Instead of their usual diatribe about class warfare, or denying the existence of inequality, Republican leaders are suddenly talking up...
It’s Time to Stop Subsidizing Inequality
Nearly every week there is some major conference on the subject of inequality. They are often led by prominent people,...
Who Goes to Jail? Matt Taibbi on “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap”
We feature our April 2014 interview with Matt Taibbi about his book, “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of...
Why Our Lives Feel Squeezed: 400 Reasons
We don’t know who exactly filed the tax returns with America’s 400 largest incomes in 2010. The IRS won’t reveal...
The Peasants Still Have Their Pitchforks
What can we expect Congress to do about America’s staggeringly top-heavy concentration of income and wealth over the next two...
Bernie Sanders: U.S. Headed Toward Becoming Third World Country
BURLINGTON, Vt. – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said a new report that paychecks are shrinking and half of all...
Wall Street and Major Retailers Agree That Inequality is Killing Us. Why Don’t Republicans?
Income inequality is killing the economy. Retailers, bankers and Democrats agree on that. Really. It’s only Republicans who continue to...
$10.10 Minimum Wage Would Save The U.S. Government $7.6 Billion A Year
Raising the federal minimum wage would save the government billions and have sweeping benefits for low-income families, according to a...
Key Inequality Measure The Highest Since The Great Depression
You know inequality is getting bad when it’s making a Swiss bank uncomfortable. The ratio of wealth to household income...
America’s Ridiculously Rich: the 2014 Edition
Imagine yourself part of the typical American family. Your household would have, the Federal Reserve reported last month, a net...
Income inequality’s sick joke: A rising tide only lifts luxury yachts
For a long time, the right has argued that we shouldn’t worry about inequality because the true concern is the...
Inequality and the USA: A Nation in Denial?
Every August, for most of the last four decades, top central bankers from around the world have been making their...
What Jesus knew about income inequality: Opinion
(CNN) — Does money make you happy? Does being rich contribute to your spiritual life and its possibilities? Is the...
‘Unbalanced Recovery’: Wages Falling, Low-Paid Jobs Rising Across US
While wages have declined across all sectors in the years following the financial crash of 2008, low-paid workers have been...
Robert Reich: The Ivy Leagues Are a Ludicrous Waste of Resources
What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society. Does anyone seriously...
S&P: Wealth Gap is Slowing US Economic Growth
WASHINGTON (AP) — Economists have long argued that a rising wealth gap has complicated the U.S. rebound from the Great...
Inside Our Profoundly Unequal ‘New Normal’
The Commerce Department released some revised figures on America’s economy last week. Previous numbers, Commerce researchers noted, had overestimated the...
Comedian John Oliver Explains Why “It’s Your Fault You’re Not Rich”
On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, host and comedian John Oliver ripped into American politicians’ colossal mishandling of the US wealth...
People Who Work For Tips Are Twice As Likely To Live In Poverty
People who work for tips are far more likely to live in poverty, according to a new report from the...
Restaurant CEOs Make More Money in Half a Day Than Their Employees Make in a Year
Last year, according to a new analysis from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the CEOs of America’s top 25 restaurant...
Super-Rich Guy To ‘Zillionaires’: Back $15 Minimum Wage Or Prepare For Revolution
A Seattle millionaire is urging his super-rich peers to support a $15 minimum wage or face the possibility of a...
Millions in Poverty Get Less Coverage Than 482 Billionaires
Poverty continues to be a pressing social problem– but it’s hardly mentioned on the network newscasts, according to a new...
Major International Finance Organization Criticizes U.S. Minimum Wage
The United States is facing new international pressure to raise its minimum wage. In its annual review of the U.S....
Increasing Wages is an Effective Poverty Reduction Tool, Study Shows
The minimum wage is currently more than 25% below its real value in the late 1960s. The Congressional Budget Office...
A New Spin from the Inequality Denialist Set
The go-to intellectual guardians of our corporate order — those conservative analysts whose op-eds appear regularly in the Wall Street...
