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...
Category: Inequality
Over One-Fourth of Men 25-34 Years Old Earned Poverty-Level Wages in 2013
Men between 25 and 44 have seen precipitous increases in the share working at such low wages, with the share...
Al Gore’s Warnings About Inequality and Democracy
Inequality and democracy are the kind of topics you may expect to hear about at a political convention, but not...
This Is What Barely Making Ends Meet In America Sounds Like
Starting last year, The Huffington Post asked people surviving on wages near the federal minimum, as well as those struggling...
Elizabeth Warren and Thomas Piketty: ‘Wealth trickles up’
Senator Elizabeth Warren is not shy about being a crusader for the middle class. The senior Massachusetts lawmaker had some...
Executive pay is an insult to working families
Memorial Day is in the rear-view mirror, but here’s one more thing to remember: American chief executives make too darn...
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Let’s stop subsidizing economic inequality
Sarah Anderson, director of the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, recently asked in a speech at...
“Bloodiest thing the world has seen”: David Cay Johnston on inequality’s looming disaster
Long before anyone knew the name Thomas Piketty, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston was plumbing the hidden depths of...
The War on the Poor and Middle-Class Families (Video)
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median household pay is dropping, adjusted for inflation. A smaller share of working-age...
Here’s The Painful Truth About What It Means To Be ‘Working Poor’ In America
In a nation that has long operated on the principle that an “American Dream” is available to anyone willing to...
“It’s total moral surrender”: Matt Taibbi unloads on Wall Street, inequality and our broken justice system
His relentless coverage of Wall Street malfeasance turned him into one of the most influential journalists of his generation, but...
Robert Reich: How to Shrink Inequality
The data on widening inequality are remarkably and disturbingly clear. The Congressional Budget Office has found that between 1979 and...
Obscenely high CEO salaries are stark marker of U.S. wealth gap
A beginning elementary school teacher in a small district in California makes around $40,000 per year. That’s 2 or 3...
Paul Krugman: Now That’s Rich
Institutional Investor’s latest “rich list” in its Alpha magazine, its survey of the 25 highest-paid hedge fund managers, is out.
The Big Tip that America’s Servers Never See
A good many Americans now know the high-finance games that JPMorgan Chase and other big banks like to play —...
The ‘Makers’ and the ‘Takers’
Today’s super rich engorge themselves on federal dollars and evade billions in taxes while ordinary Americans work themselves to the...
Fast Food Failure: How CEO-to-Worker Pay Disparity Undermines the Industry and the Economy
The link between income inequality and economic instability has drawn renewed attention from economists, policy makers, global financial institutions, media,...
The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest
The American middle class, long the most affluent in the world, has lost that distinction. While the wealthiest Americans are...
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...
Obscenely High CEO Salaries are Stark Marker of U.S. Wealth Gap
A beginning elementary school teacher in a small district in California makes around $40,000 per year. That’s 2 or 3...
Government = Protection Racket for the 1 Percent
The evidence of income inequality just keeps mounting. According to “Working for the Few,” a recent briefing paper from Oxfam,...
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...
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...
