by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 29, 2010 | Blog
New data — for 2008 — have revealed a shrinking gap between the rich and the rest of us. But the nation's top high-income tracker isn't celebrating. And neither should we. Will the Great Recession, once the dust settles, leave the United States less unequal? A...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 18, 2010 | Blog
Make room for a new right-wing assault on scientific research. In the cross-hairs this time: the massive epidemiological evidence on inequality's horrific toll on our health and overall well-being. Just over three decades ago, in 1979, an obscure research paper began...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 15, 2010 | Blog
The staggering gap between CEO and worker pay, new research from three business scholars suggests, has left America's workplaces still more nasty, brutish, and short. We have today in academia, after 30 years of rising CEO pay, a vast scholarly literature on CEO...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 11, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Over half of America has already felt the Great Recession, personally and profoundly. Yet life at our economy's summit remains ever so sweet. That's a bitter reality we really ought to start confronting. The ranks of the hurting — in Great Recession America...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 6, 2010 | Blog
Just in: new data on our staggering income gap. Just emerging: a better understanding why such gaps make economic calamities inevitable. Years ago, in the mid 20th century, no one in the United States spent much time talking about rising income inequality, for the...
