Sam Pizzigati

Labor journalist Sam Pizzigati edits Too Much, an online weekly on excess and inequality.

Currently an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., Pizzigati has written widely on economic inequality, with op-eds and articles appearing in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and a host of other newspapers and periodicals.

Pizzigati last year played an active role on the team that generated The Nation magazine special issue on extreme inequality. That issue recently won the 2009 Hillman Prize for magazine journalism.

A co-editor of the primary text on trade union journalism, Pizzigati has edited publications for four national unions. He spent 20 years directing the publishing operations of America's largest union, the 3.2 million-member National Education Association.

Pizzigati's latest book, Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality that Limits Our Lives (Apex Press, 2004), won an "outstanding title" of the year ranking from the American Library Association's Choice book review journal.

Pizzigati, 60, lives in Maryland. He has served on the boards of directors of Progressive Maryland, the state's most respected voice for working families, and United for a Fair Economy, the Boston-based national economic justice advocacy group.