by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
To protect our health, we’ve learned to have our ‘vital signs’ taken. But no visit to a doctor’s office can tell us the vital signs that determine where on earth people can expect to live the longest lives. Let’s talk life expectancy. The stats first. They tell a...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
The 'market' isn't working for working people. The rich have rigged the rules. We ought to keep trying, of course, to reduce the resulting inequality. But why not, unions are asking, end the rule-rigging? Sometimes we need new words to get a grasp on new ideas....
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
House Republicans, with help from some Wall Street-friendly Democrats, are rushing to repeal the most promising Dodd-Frank Act check on excessive executive pay. You won't believe their rationale. Only 10 percent of Americans now have confidence in Congress, Gallup has...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
Let's place private corporations with government contracts under surveillance — to make sure no one is getting rich off our tax dollars. Only 23 percent of Americans, says a new Reuters poll, consider former National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden a “traitor”...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
For the grasping managers of Corporate America — and the institutions their wealth dominates — no workers deserve dignity, not even the most amazingly accomplished. Locked-out musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra What do bank executives who make $19 million a year do...
