by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 5, 2013 | Blog
Executives at private companies with federal contracts are getting rich off our tax dollars — at the expense of their low-wage workers. But we can turn the tables. Here's how. The debate over America’s federal budget is getting stale — and getting us nowhere, as the...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 30, 2013 | Blog
Exactly a hundred years ago, decades of progressive struggle finally paid off and outfitted America with a tool for braking the unlimited accumulation of grand private fortune. The federal income tax this week turns a century old. A hundred years ago, on...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 24, 2013 | Financial Reform
The CEO pay debate inside the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Washington, D.C. headquarters last week generated wild rhetoric — and a solid step toward CEO pay transparency. Watching grown men fulminate in public can be an unnerving experience. Michael Piwowar...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 16, 2013 | Blog
The exceedingly comfortable who sit in America's richest 1 percent have regained the outrageously outsized share of the nation's income they held just before the economy cratered five years ago. The future just keeps getting brighter for Americans with unique...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 8, 2013 | Blog
America's corporate chiefs deserve all their hefty rewards, we're told, because they take hefty risks. And what exactly are these richly rewarded corporate chiefs putting at risk? Our retirement security. How’s your 401(k) doing? Working Americans ask themselves this...
