by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 23, 2013 | Blog
What more vivid symbol of the indignity our corporate-driven inequality imposes than the Carnival Triumph cruise ship. Thousands of people adrift, going nowhere in a nightmare of sewage and stench, while a billionaire chief exec sits far away in a courtside seat and...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 18, 2013 | Blog
Rising inequality, newly released data make plain, has left America's metro areas — and neighborhoods — considerably less mixed by income. Are the rich about to bid the rest of us good-bye? Our political vocabulary is changing all the time. Words that loom large in...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 10, 2013 | Blog
From hiking trails in Oregon to boardrooms in Berlin, critics of our staggeringly unequal corporate order are calling for new limits that link executive compensation to worker paychecks When do societies start taking a new idea seriously? Easy. New ideas start gaining...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 3, 2013 | Blog
. . we would have a fascinating, first-hand history of the roller-coaster first century of the modern federal income tax. Industrialist Frederick Peabody started building this manse of his dreams in 1913, the same year the income tax started biting into the nation’s...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 27, 2013 | Blog
The world's wealthy gathered in the Alps again last week to discuss how to 'solve' the world's problems. The world's biggest problem, suggests one top global anti-poverty outfit, may be their fortunes. Apologists for inequality have a standard retort to anyone who...
