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Joe the Plumber, We Miss You!

By Sam Pizzigati
October 21, 2012

Americans haven't heard much at all from Joe the Plumber this election cycle. A shame. Without his rants against sharing the wealth, no one's bothering to debate how desperately America really needs to be sharing. And how desperate has our maldistribution of wealth become? Typical families in more equal nations -- like Japan -- now have over three times more wealth than typical families in the United States, says new data from Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse.

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Mitt’s Offshore Shenanigans: The Bigger Story

By Sam Pizzigati
July 21, 2012

All those official government stats on the maldistribution of wealth in the United States — and the world — vastly understate the actual extent of our contemporary inequality, says a blockbuster new study on global tax havens.

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Magic Act: Making the Super Rich Disappear

By Sam Pizzigati
June 17, 2012

The Federal Reserve has once again counted up America's personal wealth — and omitted the nation's 400 richest from the final tally. But the new figures, even with that omission, show a divide still deepening.

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How Billionaires Could Race to Our Rescue

By Sam Pizzigati
September 26, 2010

A modest tax on all U.S. personal fortunes over $1 billion could raise more than enough revenue from the Forbes 400 alone to erase the combined budget shortfalls of every state in the nation.

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Wall Street's Meltdown and Wealth's Maldistribution

By Sam Pizzigati
April 27, 2010

The Great Recession, new research shows, has left wealth in the United States even more concentrated at America's economic summit.

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Sam Pizzigati
Hometown: Kensington, MD
Interests: An Economy for All, inequality, wealth distribution
Honors: None, yet

Two thirds of Americans (66%) want more even distribution of wealth

Source
Dennis Jacobe, “Increasing Momentum for Economic Populism: Lower-Income Americans More Likely to be Financially ‘Worse Off’ Than Year Ago,” Gallup Inc., 7 January 2008. http://www.gallup.com/poll/103609/Increasing-Momentum-Economic-Populism.aspx ; http://www.gallup.com/video/27217/Income-Gap.aspx