Tag: inequality

Growing piles of trash on the streets of Philadelphia brought the strike into clear view for city residents.

Without archaeology, there is no way to truly examine economic inequality, its causes, and its consequences over very long time spans on a global scale.

The UK’s Equality Trust has plenty of ideas for fostering a more equal and environmentally secure world. And building that world has become more fundamentally essential today than ever before.

As the wealthiest 1 percent amass unprecedented riches, inequality deepens, posing a dire threat to democracy and the planet, urging a reevaluation of global tax policies.

We can’t change the generation we get born into. We can change how the world we enter distributes income and wealth.

The super rich, worldwide, are regularly cowing their critics. Bay Staters have pounded back.

Do we need, some observers of our fraying social fabric suggest, more people in public life noble enough to champion basic ethical norms?

So how does inequality provoke criminality?

Can we actually start taxing the rich again?

Electric air taxis aren’t going to save the world. Really taxing the rich, on the other hand, could.