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...
Inequality / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published June 22, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
The go-to intellectual guardians of our corporate order — those conservative analysts whose op-eds appear regularly in the Wall Street...
Men between 25 and 44 have seen precipitous increases in the share working at such low wages, with the share...
Inequality and democracy are the kind of topics you may expect to hear about at a political convention, but not...
Starting last year, The Huffington Post asked people surviving on wages near the federal minimum, as well as those struggling...
Senator Elizabeth Warren is not shy about being a crusader for the middle class. The senior Massachusetts lawmaker had some...
CEOs / Inequality / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published June 3, 2014 · Last modified August 28, 2014
Memorial Day is in the rear-view mirror, but here’s one more thing to remember: American chief executives make too darn...
by onepercenttakers · Published June 2, 2014 · Last modified August 28, 2014
Sarah Anderson, director of the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, recently asked in a speech at...
Long before anyone knew the name Thomas Piketty, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston was plumbing the hidden depths of...
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median household pay is dropping, adjusted for inflation. A smaller share of working-age...
In a nation that has long operated on the principle that an “American Dream” is available to anyone willing to...
Inequality / Politics / Wall Street
by onepercenttakers · Published May 19, 2014 · Last modified September 2, 2014
His relentless coverage of Wall Street malfeasance turned him into one of the most influential journalists of his generation, but...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 17, 2014 · Last modified September 2, 2014
The data on widening inequality are remarkably and disturbingly clear. The Congressional Budget Office has found that between 1979 and...
CEOs / Inequality / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published May 14, 2014 · Last modified September 3, 2014
A beginning elementary school teacher in a small district in California makes around $40,000 per year. That’s 2 or 3...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 11, 2014 · Last modified September 3, 2014
Institutional Investor’s latest “rich list” in its Alpha magazine, its survey of the 25 highest-paid hedge fund managers, is out.
CEOs / Inequality / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published May 6, 2014 · Last modified September 3, 2014
A good many Americans now know the high-finance games that JPMorgan Chase and other big banks like to play —...
Inequality / Richest One Percent / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published May 5, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Today’s super rich engorge themselves on federal dollars and evade billions in taxes while ordinary Americans work themselves to the...
CEOs / Inequality / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published May 2, 2014 · Last modified September 4, 2014
The link between income inequality and economic instability has drawn renewed attention from economists, policy makers, global financial institutions, media,...
The American middle class, long the most affluent in the world, has lost that distinction. While the wealthiest Americans are...
Inequality / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 24, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
WASHINGTON — The top 10 percent of earners took more than half of the country’s total income in 2012, the...
A beginning elementary school teacher in a small district in California makes around $40,000 per year. That’s 2 or 3...
Inequality / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 24, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
The evidence of income inequality just keeps mounting. According to “Working for the Few,” a recent briefing paper from Oxfam,...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 23, 2014 · Last modified September 4, 2014
WASHINGTON — Eight million Americans are insured through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges, President Barack Obama announced Thursday. Wendy TwarDokus...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 22, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
When we had heavily regulated and taxed capitalism in the post-war era, the largest employer in America was General Motors,...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 19, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
A new study from Princeton spells bad news for American democracy—namely, that it no longer exists.
by onepercenttakers · Published April 17, 2014 · Last modified September 5, 2014
In an op-ed published by the Christian Post, Phyllis Schlafly — the founder of the Eagle Forum — maintained that...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 16, 2014 · Last modified September 7, 2014
Robert Reich has a special Tax Day message, explaining why the wealthiest 1% pay a much lower tax rate than...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 15, 2014 · Last modified September 6, 2014
Although they say they’re concerned about inequality, economic policymakers continue to pummel low-income families and the jobless, and that’s bad...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 15, 2014 · Last modified September 6, 2014
Almost half a million college graduates are working minimum-wage jobs, according to new government statistics.
Inequality / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 15, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
WASHINGTON — The top 10 percent of earners took more than half of the country’s total income in 2012, the...
Inequality / Richest One Percent / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published April 15, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Most people know about income inequality: the gap in earnings between the 1 percent and the rest of us that...
Median CEO pay rose to $10.5 million last year at America’s largest companies, according to a USA Today analysis that...
Inequality / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 13, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) asked Thursday whether the U.S. was evolving into an oligarchy during a speech on the Senate...
You can blame the stagnant economy on a “handful of women and men” who run the country’s largest companies. And...
CEOs / Inequality / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published April 11, 2014 · Last modified September 7, 2014
Former Chief Executive Officer Ron Johnson, 54, of J.C. Penney Co. got a compensation package worth 1,795 times the average...
CEOs / Inequality / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published April 11, 2014 · Last modified September 7, 2014
So-called fast food “managers” who do much of the same work as non-managerial workers, but without being eligible for overtime...
"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.