by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers. You won't find any of them in this latest annual list of America's most avaricious. You will find wheelers and dealers and even a candy store heiress. The headlines haven't been particularly kind to America's most relentlessly...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
What makes a society a fun place to be? Really nice weather and exciting nightlife options certainly help. So does avoiding a starkly skewed distribution of income and wealth. World Bank economist Branko Milanovic does serious work. His explorations into global...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
In plain yet powerful language, Pope Francis is challenging the givens of our deeply unequal world — and helping inspire resistance to it. Sometimes you don’t have to say anything “new” to make news. Consider, for instance, the “apostolic exhortation” the...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
America's corporate CEOs feel entitled to pensions that pay out $86,000 monthly. To protect their entitlement, they're attacking ours: Social Security. Deck the halls, this holiday season, with scenes of hunger. Struggling families all across America now have...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Young activists in Switzerland have plutocrats hyperventilating — and spending a fortune to beat back a ballot initiative that would establish a legal limit on the pay gap between top execs and their workers. By Sam Pizzigati Something astounding is happening...
