by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 22, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Health
Photo credit: Tony Webster / flickr / cc Earlier this month, still another one-day-wonder of a Twitter storm surfaced and quickly sank in Donald Trump’s America. On January 9, President Trump claimed credit for new figures from the American Cancer Society that show —...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 6, 2020 | Blog, Economy, Featured, Inequality
L-R: Alan Greenspan, Paul Volcker, Ben Bernanke. Photo credit: U.S. Federal Reserve / cc The obituaries for Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chair who died December 8 at age 92, almost all echoed a noble, even heroic narrative. Between 1979 and 1987, as one...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 6, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Economy, Election, Featured
Is America’s political discourse on inequality finally getting real? In the early going of the 2020 presidential campaign, this has become a question worth asking. White House hopefuls have been condemning the maldistribution of America’s income and wealth with an...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 14, 2019 | Democracy, Election, Featured, Politics
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc The 220-year-old Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York’s mayors since 1942, hosted billionaire Michael Bloomberg for three terms. The first term began after Bloomberg, then the Republican candidate for mayor,...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 7, 2019 | Blog, Climate, Featured, Inequality, Infrastructure
Photo credit: FEMA / Wikimedia Commons / cc Fires are raging everywhere in California these days, and firefighters are having enormous trouble keeping up. Chronically understaffed local fire departments simply don’t have the resources to handle act one of what climate...