by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 17, 2012 | Blog
The Federal Reserve has once again counted up America's personal wealth — and omitted the nation's 400 richest from the final tally. But the new figures, even with that omission, show a divide still deepening. In the middle of middle America — in a suburb just outside...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 11, 2012 | Blog
All those millions that America's billionaires are pouring into super PACs, where do they come from? We can trace a huge chunk of that political cash to the truly massive tax cuts our richest now enjoy. How massive? Over $25 billion a year -- for our most affluent 400...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 6, 2012 | Blog
Wisconsin’s capitol continues to reverberate with the sound and fury of workers and students united — against the 'Mubarak of the Midwest' and the wealthy he so diligently shields from any inconvenience. In 1911, exactly a century ago, Wisconsin enacted...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 2, 2012 | Blog
Sugary soft drinks, as Michael Bloomberg reminds us, do our nation no good. But if we really want to narrow our waistbands, we’re going to have to narrow the income gaps that divide us. The billionaire mayor of New York wants his city’s Board of Health to ban...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 28, 2012 | Blog
A perfectly respectable business panel is urging corporate boards to ditch the ridiculous rationalizations for CEO pay excess and narrow the gargantuan corporate pay gap. Step one: end CEO stock options. In Corporate America, the emperors have no clothes. The entire...
