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...
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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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
