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...
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...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) accused the Koch brothers of “trying to buy America”.
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s new budget cuts $3.3 trillion over ten years (2015-2024) from programs that serve people...
(CNN) — Strong countries need a thriving middle class, but in America today, the people who have to work for...
Bank of America is paying $6.3 billion to settle a lawsuit arising out of troubled mortgage-backed securities it cobbled together...
Workers in California, Michigan and New York this week filed six new lawsuits against McDonald’s claiming they were systematically shorted...
If you take the king’s shilling, says the old saying, then you do the king’s bidding. So what happens when...
A new pair of reports suggests that the super rich are richer than we thought.
NEW YORK — McDonald’s Corp. more than tripled the pay packages last year for its new CEO Don Thompson and...
High pay may be understandable when a top executive turns around a failing company or vastly expands a company’s revenue...
A Delaware man convicted of raping his three-year-old daughter only faced probation after a state Superior Court judge ruled he...
WASHINGTON (AP) – Manufacturing giant Caterpillar Inc. has used an aggressive tax strategy to shift profits overseas in order to...
Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson told a crowd at Yeshiva University in New York on Tuesday that the only proper negotiating...
The two biggest welfare queens in America today are Wal-Mart and McDonald’s.
Yes, there are “takers” in the American economy, but they’re not the poor folks Mitt Romney referenced in his now-infamous...
(Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co must face a lawsuit from shareholders accusing it of securities fraud by misleading them...
There’s just one element missing from these snapshots of America’s ostensibly spontaneous and leaderless populist uprising: the sugar daddies who...
You can blame the stagnant economy on a “handful of women and men” who run the country’s largest companies. And...
Does being super-wealthy make you extra susceptible to self-pity today? That’s the only conclusion we can draw from an epidemic...
Right-wing groups may have successfully defeated a unionization bid at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tenn. manufacturing plant, but it wasn’t a clean...
A new chart released by Stop Fooling California reveals that the oil industry, including the Western States Petroleum Association, Chevron,...
Former Chief Executive Officer Ron Johnson, 54, of J.C. Penney Co. got a compensation package worth 1,795 times the average...
So-called fast food “managers” who do much of the same work as non-managerial workers, but without being eligible for overtime...
In the series “The Secret Life of a Food Stamp,” Marketplace reporter Krissy Clark traces how big-box stores make billions...
WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) – Foreign profits held overseas by U.S. corporations to avoid taxes at home nearly doubled from...