Richest Americans See Huge Growth in Income
Here’s a startling fact that illustrates how income inequality is changing the U.S.: The top 1 percent of Americans now...
Here’s a startling fact that illustrates how income inequality is changing the U.S.: The top 1 percent of Americans now...
Today’s super rich engorge themselves on federal dollars and evade billions in taxes while ordinary Americans work themselves to the...
In his most recent piece for the New York Times, celebrated economist Paul Krugman ponders the ways his chosen field...
The dramatic progress of the movement to make the minimum wage a living wage was highlighted on May Day when...
The Koch-backed, right-wing lobbying group, ALEC, is planning a coordinated attack on the EPA’s plan to limit carbon emissions from...
The link between income inequality and economic instability has drawn renewed attention from economists, policy makers, global financial institutions, media,...
At long last, the Koch brothers and their conservative allies in state government have found a new tax they can...
An oligarchy, Webster’s dictionary tells us, is “a form of government in which the ruling power belongs to a few...
Racist rancher and welfare cowboy Cliven Bundy got some help from an unexpected quarter over the weekend, as a far...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles city attorney is suing Bank of America for mortgage discrimination it claims led...
There’s another reason to get upset when CEOs make millions: Taxpayers are subsidizing some of this wealth.
RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence and battery charges last week, dodging 45 felony counts for...
The American middle class, long the most affluent in the world, has lost that distinction. While the wealthiest Americans are...
WASHINGTON — The top 10 percent of earners took more than half of the country’s total income in 2012, the...
Protesters dressed up as Apple Store employees in telltale blue t-shirts marched in front of the Union Square store Tuesday...
A beginning elementary school teacher in a small district in California makes around $40,000 per year. That’s 2 or 3...
Citizens across the U.S. are attempting to break free of the fossil fuel industry and do what state and federal...
The evidence of income inequality just keeps mounting. According to “Working for the Few,” a recent briefing paper from Oxfam,...
The claim that America is riven by class conflict may come as a surprise to people who like to think...
Since Ronald Reagan’s “supply-side” tax cuts for the rich – followed by other giveaways like eliminating the “death tax” so...
WASHINGTON — Eight million Americans are insured through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges, President Barack Obama announced Thursday. Wendy TwarDokus...
April 15, Washington – As hardworking Americans file their taxes today, it’s a good time to be reminded that ordinary...
At 79, Graef “Bud” Crystal is the grand old man of executive compensation critics. Once a top compensation consultant, he...
A bill designed to repeal Kansas’ clean energy law is moving quickly through the state legislature this week — an...
When we had heavily regulated and taxed capitalism in the post-war era, the largest employer in America was General Motors,...
Retired Justice John Paul Stevens is taking aim at the Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision to eliminate the limit on...
From Fox News’ Hannity special, “The Power of Faith”.
A new study from Princeton spells bad news for American democracy—namely, that it no longer exists.
The New York Times reported Friday that Jamie Dimon, the silver-haired CEO of JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s largest bank by...
Charles and David Koch hit a milestone on Wednesday, as a $1.3 billion boost to their collective fortune sent their...
Twenty-six of the most powerful American corporations – such as Boeing, General Electric, and Verizon – paid no federal income...
In an op-ed published by the Christian Post, Phyllis Schlafly — the founder of the Eagle Forum — maintained that...
Robert Reich has a special Tax Day message, explaining why the wealthiest 1% pay a much lower tax rate than...
Maryland’s minimum wage will rise to $10.10 over the next four years under a bill passed Monday night. Gov. Martin...
The chaos in Ukraine can be viewed, in part, as what happens when a collection of “oligarchs” – sometimes competing,...
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Civil rights groups, labor organizer and their allies are stepping up pressure on Congress to pass legislation...
One of the most hotly contested issues in the debate over raising the federal minimum wage — whether it will...
“It no longer matters who sits in the White House,” former Goldman Sachs managing director Nomi Prins writes in her...
Although they say they’re concerned about inequality, economic policymakers continue to pummel low-income families and the jobless, and that’s bad...
Almost half a million college graduates are working minimum-wage jobs, according to new government statistics.
Big players are taking unprecedented steps to stop offshore abuses, but financial crime fighters worry reforms don’t go far enough.
Hey, Corporate America, are you befuddled as to why you are widely considered the mustache-twirling villain in the tragicomedy that...
Tuesday on his show “Off the Grid,” former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura “called bullsh*t” on the “one percent” who are...
As a result of the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision, billionaires and large corporations can now spend an unlimited...
A new poll finds that 89 percent of fast food workers nationwide say they experience wage theft.
On Wednesday, Senate Republicans unanimously voted against advancing the Paycheck Fairness Act. Forty-three voted against invoking cloture, joined by Independent...