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,...
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.
Extreme inequality, it turns out, creates a class of people who are alarmingly detached from reality — and simultaneously gives...
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...
WASHINGTON — The top 10 percent of earners took more than half of the country’s total income in 2012, the...
After rejecting two previous proposals for being too generous to banks, on Friday a federal judge approved Detroit’s plan to...
Most people know about income inequality: the gap in earnings between the 1 percent and the rest of us that...
WASHINGTON — Billions of dollars in U.S. taxes are going unpaid because Americans are exploiting Swiss bank accounts, and the...
Median CEO pay rose to $10.5 million last year at America’s largest companies, according to a USA Today analysis that...
Drivers and pizza cooks will share a $448,000 payout from 23 Domino’s Pizza franchise owners around New York state under...
An expensive tax break intended to make more Americans homeowners is instead making American homes bigger without benefiting non-rich people,...
A study, to appear in the Fall 2014 issue of the academic journal Perspectives on Politics, finds that the U.S....
Shake Shack, a burger chain with locations in Florida, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C. as well as international...
Billionaire oilman David Koch used to joke that Koch Industries was “the biggest company you’ve never heard of.” Now the...
Rashida Tlaib is a state representative in Michigan. But on Wednesday when she checked out at her grocery store, she...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) asked Thursday whether the U.S. was evolving into an oligarchy during a speech on the Senate...
U.S.-based nonfinancial companies are parking record amounts of cash abroad, thanks largely to a tax code that encourages them to...
People like Sheldon Adelson support candidates who are in favor of lowering tax rates for corporations and the super-wealthy —...
Connect the dots between policies that keep many of our fellow Americans desperate, and you’ll see they add up to...
When organized interest groups or economic elites want a particular policy passed, there’s a strongly likelihood their wishes will come...