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Economic Inequality: The Wall Street Journal is Just Wrong

By Bruce Judson
September 23, 2009

For anyone with even a passing familiarity with issues associated with economic inequality, The Wall Street Journal front page story last week was shocking. Its use of bad data was a misuse of this important forum. more »

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Rush and Reparations

By Melissa Harris-Lacewell
From thenation.com
May 13th, 2009

thenation.com — Rush Limbaugh says when you think of President Obama's economic policy, "think reparations. Think forced reparations here if you want to understand what actually is going on." The use of the term here is interesting, given that reparations are not solely, or even mostly, about race. They are about giving back to those who have been wronged in order to make them whole again.

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Did Derivatives Drive the Meltdown?

By Sam Pizzigati
May 6, 2009

A World Bank economist is suggesting we need to concentrate less on the complexities of high finance and more on the noxious simplicity of our deeply unequal income distribution.

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The 'Risky' Business in America's Executive Suites

By Sam Pizzigati
May 3, 2009

Who takes more of a risk when they wake up in the morning and go in to work? Laborers at construction sites? Or CEOs? Statistically, the answer could hardly be any plainer. Just over 1,200 Americans, notes a new report that surfaced last week, died on the job in construction in 2007. more »

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Hometown: Evanston, IL
Interests: An Economy for All, child care, economic inequality
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The New Surge in CEO Self-Sacrifice

By Sam Pizzigati
January 12, 2009

Beware of CEOs who feel your pain. These days, that's not easy. They seem to be just about everywhere. With the economy in free-fall, CEOs all across the United States have begun waging a veritable empathy offensive. more »

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Detroit's 'Underpaid' Top Auto Execs

By Sam Pizzigati
December 1, 2008

All eyes this week will be on the return of the auto industry’s Big Three to Capitol Hill. No one knows for sure what will happen with the industry’s bailout request. But one thing seems certain: The Big Three’s CEOs couldn’t possibly give another performance as dreadfully disastrous as their appearance before Congress last month.

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Moguls Steal Home While Companies Strike Out

By Bill Moyers
September 19, 2008

From our offices in Manhattan, we look out on the tall, gleaming skyscrapers that are cathedrals of wealth and power -- the Olympus ruled by the gods of finance, the temples of the mighty, the holy of holies, whose priests guard the sacred texts of salvation -- the ones containing the secrets of subprime lending and derivatives as mysterious and elusive as the Grail itself. more »

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Minority Women Face Large Economic Gap

Submitted by Armand Biroonak
August 28, 2008

For women of color, they earn about 60 cents for every dollar a white man makes.

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