by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 10, 2014 | Blog, Economy
Back in 1979, notes a new Economic Policy Institute report released last week, households in America’s statistical middle — the 20 percent of households making more than the nation’s poorest 40 percent and less than the nation’s most affluent 40 percent — averaged...
by Thom Hartmann | Jun 5, 2014 | Economy
The NRA’s brief moment of sanity is over. On Tuesday, the gun group apologized for a statement published on its website that called gun rights protesters in Texas “weird” and “scary.” That statement, which the NRA put out last Friday, came after gun activists in the...
by Lynne Stuart Parramore | Jun 3, 2014 | Economy
In Boston this past weekend, the Patriotic Millionaires, a group of wealthy Americans fighting to raise tax rates — for themselves! — and HuffPost Live hosted French economist Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the 21st Century, and Senator Elizabeth Warren, whose...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 29, 2014 | Economy
Have you heard about Domino’s Pizza CEO J. Patrick Doyle? He pocketed $43 million over the last three years running an operation that stiffs low-wage workers and rakes in taxpayer subsidies. That news prompted the New York Post to open its coverage with a rather...
by Lynne Stuart Parramore | May 28, 2014 | Economy
The media are all abuzz with the changing nature of work. Exciting words like “creativity” and “adaptability” get thrown around, specifically in connection to the shift away from steady, full-time employment to a gig economy of freelancers and short-term contracts....
by Sam Pizzigati | May 20, 2014 | Blog, Economy
These haven’t been the best of times for the young men and women attending America’s colleges and universities. Or for the faculty who teach them. Those students are graduating, if they can afford to get that far, with levels of debt that would have seemed...
