Tag: inequality

The Catholic leader’s criticism comes as members of Congress call for tax hikes on corporations with huge CEO-worker pay gaps.

A shareholder proposal to grant Musk unprecedented wealth comes as inequality widens, taxes on corporations shrink, and workers face mounting economic strain.

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

As the U.S. faces historic cuts to the social safety net, local economic alternatives can meet basic needs and provide opportunities to organize for a better future.

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?