Tag: wealth inequality

In recent years America has become a culture of bullying – the wealthier over the poorer, CEOs over workers, those with privilege and pedigree over those without, the whiter over the browner and blacker, men over women.

Our latest slam-dunk evidence: the record of the decade since the Wall Street financial crash ushered in the Great Recession.

These fortunate takers profited mainly from the stock market, which has more than tripled in value since the end of 2008.

"This is what a rigged economy looks like and it must end."

A new agenda is needed. We have to recognize that economic growth inevitably involves economic transformation, based on innovation and technological change.

By any rational definition of poverty, half of our country's households are dealing with it.

The Kochs have taken the long view with their ideological power grab.

For decades, the Koch brothers have led a secret coup for the billionaire class.

The rest of America has been left behind, but their voices are getting louder.

One entire group being victimized by corporate thieves are the 4.3 million Americans who make up our “tipped workforce.”