by Sam Pizzigati | May 10, 2009 | Blog, Economy
Tax-cutters inspired by Jack Kemp have always argued that high tax rates give the rich an incentive to cheat on their taxes. The reality: So do low tax rates. Jack Kemp, the 1996 Republican vice-presidential nominee, died a week ago Saturday from cancer. Two days...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 6, 2009 | Blog
A World Bank economist is suggesting we need to concentrate less on the complexities of high finance and more on the noxious simplicity of our deeply unequal income distribution. Our high priests of high finance — the bankers and traders of Wall Street — take great...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 3, 2009 | Blog
Who takes more of a risk when they wake up in the morning and go in to work? Laborers at construction sites? Or CEOs? Statistically, the answer could hardly be any plainer. Just over 1,200 Americans, notes a new report that surfaced last week, died on the job in...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 19, 2009 | Blog
The United States has been regularly counting people, via the Census, since 1790. But the federal government didn’t start counting the dollars in people’s pockets, with any regularity, until 1983 when the Federal Reserve began conducting a “Survey of...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 13, 2009 | Blog
We live in a sound-bite political culture. Politicos and policy makers hardly ever engage their opposite numbers in anything close to real debate. Instead, they inflict upon us carefully rehearsed talking points. And the rest of us usually don’t particularly...
