The party of the rich is now doing everything in its power to make sure those without money live in misery
Last week my colleague Simon Maloy caught us up with the latest on Kanses Gov. Sam Brownback’s famous Arthur Laffer...
Last week my colleague Simon Maloy caught us up with the latest on Kanses Gov. Sam Brownback’s famous Arthur Laffer...
Robert Reich, the Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, published an essay in the most recent American Prospect in which...
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to give a tax break worth $269 billion to the richest few thousand estates...
Despite the ever-widening income gap in America with the poor and middle class losing wealth to the richest Americans in...
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the self-described democratic socialist and one of Congress’ leading advocates for the working class, says any American...
All our lives, we have been told that free markets are synonymous with free societies. That neoliberal capitalism is consistent...
The U. S. government denied bitcoin entrepreneur Roger Ver a visa last week, reported Coin Desk. Ver renounced his American...
Republicans have accused President Obama of waging class warfare for using his State of the Union to push for an...
By next year, the richest one percent will have accumulated more than half of the world’s wealth. A new report...
Former United States Secretary of Labor Robert Reich produced a short “2014 Year in Review” video in which he reminded...
In its latest listing of America’s wealthiest individuals, Forbes magazine for the first time ranks the members of the top...
On the Senate floor today, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled a twelve point economic plan that if enacted would break...
We don’t know who exactly filed the tax returns with America’s 400 largest incomes in 2010. The IRS won’t reveal...
The richest Americans hold more of the nation’s wealth than they have in almost a century. What do they spend...
Appearing on Monday night’s Colbert Report on Comedy Central, Sen. Bernie Sanders told the show’s host that he’s still contemplating...
Walmart is a wildly successful company. Its “corporate fact sheet” online boasts that for “the fiscal year ended January 31,...
The Walton family—who, as heirs to the Walmart fortune, have more wealth than 42 percent of American families combined—are impeding...
Imagine yourself part of the typical American family. Your household would have, the Federal Reserve reported last month, a net...
For a long time, the right has argued that we shouldn’t worry about inequality because the true concern is the...
Mitt Romney explains his 47 percent remark, Take 23. During a recent sit-down with the New York Times’ Mark Leibovich,...
WASHINGTON — The wealthiest Americans are playing a larger role in politics these days, thanks to campaign finance laws loosened...
We’ll be posting a new chart on the current state of income inequality every day for the next couple of...
It’s the home stretch of the 2014 election season. No single theme or issue has dominated the midterms, but 2014...
George Baer was a railroad and coal mining magnate at the turn of the twentieth century. Amid a violent and...
Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has donated $10 million to a Karl Rove-backed outfit boosting Republican Senate candidates and...
“Lifestyles of the Rich Environmentalists,” produced by a group called the Institute for Energy Research, is a slick web video...
In 1894, Chicago was the Midwest’s gateway to the rest of the United States. Twenty-four different railroad lines centered or...
In a newly released audio recording, obtained by The Undercurrent, a man identified as a top Koch strategist warned that...
When the political mercenaries of American oligarchy jet off to consort with their electoral paymasters, they never imagine that the...
There are some congressional Republicans who believe the party’s commitment to supply-side, trickle-down tax policy is in need of an...
The good news for US Atlantic coast offshore wind power just keeps rolling along. Earlier this year, renewable energy fans...
The world’s super-rich are returning to the high seas, with the number of luxury yacht sales hitting their highest level...
If you are not in the Chicago media market, you might not know much about Bruce Rauner, the Mitt Romney-like...
We are at a pivotal moment in American history. The major issue of our time is whether the United States...
The Commerce Department released some revised figures on America’s economy last week. Previous numbers, Commerce researchers noted, had overestimated the...
ALEC holds its 41st annual meeting in Dallas, Texas starting on Wednesday, July 30, 2014. At this largest of its...
Do you wonder which members of Congress routinely side with the richest 1 percent and Wall Street? Which lawmakers consistently...
How much are the mega rich hiding offshore? Independent analysts have been working to pin that figure down. The most...
In the global discussion of human rights, impunity refers to de facto immunity from punishment enjoyed by dictators, oligarchs, and...
This is what happens when Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, Tom Cotton, Cory Gardner and a gang of the world’s richest...
Poverty continues to be a pressing social problem– but it’s hardly mentioned on the network newscasts, according to a new...
(Reuters) – As tension over inequality simmers, persistent cash hoarding by multinationals and the super-rich may be one measure of...
On May 22, The Campaign for America’s Future gave a conference on The New Populist Majority. The keynote speaker was...
The United States offers three kinds of subsidies to tycoons with private jets: accelerated tax write-offs, avoidance of personal taxes...
Racist rancher and welfare cowboy Cliven Bundy got some help from an unexpected quarter over the weekend, as a far...
WASHINGTON — The top 10 percent of earners took more than half of the country’s total income in 2012, the...
The evidence of income inequality just keeps mounting. According to “Working for the Few,” a recent briefing paper from Oxfam,...
WASHINGTON — The top 10 percent of earners took more than half of the country’s total income in 2012, the...
A Delaware man convicted of raping his three-year-old daughter only faced probation after a state Superior Court judge ruled he...
Yes, there are “takers” in the American economy, but they’re not the poor folks Mitt Romney referenced in his now-infamous...