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...
Inequality / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published May 23, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
The widening gap between haves and have-nots in much of the developed world not only raises concerns about the fraying...
by onepercenttakers · Published January 31, 2015 · Last modified November 21, 2015
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,...
by onepercenttakers · Published January 19, 2015 · Last modified November 27, 2015
By next year, the richest one percent will have accumulated more than half of the world’s wealth. A new report...
by onepercenttakers · Published January 15, 2015 · Last modified November 21, 2015
We feature our April 2014 interview with Matt Taibbi about his book, “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of...
Earlier this month, in the sparsely populated Kentucky county that’s home to Bowling Green, officials voted to convert the place...
Inequality / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published December 9, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
We don’t know who exactly filed the tax returns with America’s 400 largest incomes in 2010. The IRS won’t reveal...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published December 1, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Some people say inequality doesn’t matter. They are wrong. All we have to do to see its effects is to...
by onepercenttakers · Published November 29, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
The richest Americans hold more of the nation’s wealth than they have in almost a century. What do they spend...
by onepercenttakers · Published November 12, 2014 · Last modified November 23, 2015
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...
You know inequality is getting bad when it’s making a Swiss bank uncomfortable. The ratio of wealth to household income...
Inequality / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published October 8, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
Imagine yourself part of the typical American family. Your household would have, the Federal Reserve reported last month, a net...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 7, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
For a long time, the right has argued that we shouldn’t worry about inequality because the true concern is the...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 25, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
We’ll be posting a new chart on the current state of income inequality every day for the next couple of...
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...
People who work for tips are far more likely to live in poverty, according to a new report from the...
CEOs / Inequality / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published July 18, 2014 · Last modified August 6, 2014
Last year, according to a new analysis from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the CEOs of America’s top 25 restaurant...
A Seattle millionaire is urging his super-rich peers to support a $15 minimum wage or face the possibility of a...
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...
Inequality and democracy are the kind of topics you may expect to hear about at a political convention, but not...
Long before anyone knew the name Thomas Piketty, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston was plumbing the hidden depths of...
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...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published May 8, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
A new study that will appear in the fall 2014 issue of Perspectives on Politics concludes that the United States...
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 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...
"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.