by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 25, 2012 | Blog
We obsess over health care in the United States, because we all want to be healthy. In the process, new evidence suggests, we're ignoring the social dynamics that actually determine our health. The U.S. Supreme Court this week begins the process of deciding the fate...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 18, 2012 | Blog
Austerity budgets are spreading everywhere, but wealth, new data show, has become more concentrated at the global economic summit than ever before. From Cairo to Palo Alto, even some conservatives are now talking wealth tax. Forbes magazine started tracking America’s...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 12, 2012 | Blog
Great economic cataclysms have in the past knocked the super rich off their stride. Our Great Recession's deep pockets, stunning new income data show, are bucking the historical tide. We can wait all we want, but sometimes history never gets around to repeating....
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 3, 2012 | Blog
A tax-the-rich bombshell has dropped in the presidential race. The French presidential race. But this bombshell’s blast will almost certainly reverberate elsewhere. Maybe even in the United States. Mainstream political leaders in the world’s developed nations have...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 27, 2012 | Blog
If a blunder you committed cost your employer $4 million, how long would you stay employed? In America today, a CEO can cost his company $4 billion and still collect both a paycheck and a bonus. People in America get fired all the time. Break too many plates as a...
