GOP Lawmakers Fought To Keep People Uninsured
WASHINGTON — Eight million Americans are insured through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges, President Barack Obama announced Thursday. Wendy TwarDokus...
Category: Inequality
Reaganomics Killed America’s Middle Class
When we had heavily regulated and taxed capitalism in the post-war era, the largest employer in America was General Motors,...
Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy
A new study from Princeton spells bad news for American democracy—namely, that it no longer exists.
Prominent Republican: Women Need To Be Paid Less So They Can Find Husbands
In an op-ed published by the Christian Post, Phyllis Schlafly — the founder of the Eagle Forum — maintained that...
Is Our Tax System Fair?
Robert Reich has a special Tax Day message, explaining why the wealthiest 1% pay a much lower tax rate than...
There’s a Class War Going On and the Poor Are Getting Their Butts Kicked
Although they say they’re concerned about inequality, economic policymakers continue to pummel low-income families and the jobless, and that’s bad...
Half A Million People With College Degrees Are Working For Minimum Wage
Almost half a million college graduates are working minimum-wage jobs, according to new government statistics.
Top 1 Percent Take Record Share of U.S. Income
WASHINGTON — The top 10 percent of earners took more than half of the country’s total income in 2012, the...
Wealth Inequality Is Now As Bad As It Was During The 1920s
Most people know about income inequality: the gap in earnings between the 1 percent and the rest of us that...
Median CEO Pay Jumped 13 Percent Last Year To $10.5 Million
Median CEO pay rose to $10.5 million last year at America’s largest companies, according to a USA Today analysis that...
Bernie Sanders: Greedy Billionaires Twisting American Dream Into Nightmarish Oligarchy
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) asked Thursday whether the U.S. was evolving into an oligarchy during a speech on the Senate...
Former CEO: Executive Pay Is ‘A Fraud’
You can blame the stagnant economy on a “handful of women and men” who run the country’s largest companies. And...
CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U.S. Law
Former Chief Executive Officer Ron Johnson, 54, of J.C. Penney Co. got a compensation package worth 1,795 times the average...
Fast Food CEO: Low-Paid Managers Prefer ‘Stature’ to Overtime Pay
So-called fast food “managers” who do much of the same work as non-managerial workers, but without being eligible for overtime...
