Tag: wealth inequality
New poll shows two-thirds of voters support a wealth tax to...
“There is growing concern about the influence large corporations and wealthy individuals have on American elections.”
News flash: Billionaires don’t like socialism
If media are to perform their role as the fourth estate properly, they should really be scrutinizing power, not uncritically amplifying it.
Rising inequality affecting 70% of the world
“The rise is far from inevitable and can be tackled at a national and international level.”
Blaming ‘flawed and sexist’ capitalist system, Oxfam report finds 2,153 billionaires...
“Our broken economies are lining the pockets of billionaires and big business at the expense of ordinary men and women. No wonder people are starting to question whether billionaires should even exist.”
Eight ways the Trump-GOP tax cuts have made the rich richer...
In the two years since Congress passed the Republican tax law, the richest 1 percent have been the big winners.
Are America’s rich getting tired of winning?
European social scientists see poverty as “social exclusion,” the incapacity to lead the life that most of society considers minimally decent.
Top 1.0% of earners see wages up 157.8% since 1979
These data are not top-coded, meaning the underlying earnings reported are actual earnings and not “capped” or “top-coded” for confidentiality.
Have researchers just hit an inequality trifecta?
At racetracks all across America, lucky bettors every so often rake in small fortunes when the horses they pick to finish one,...
Wealth that concentrates kills
The weight of the wealth that sits at the top of America’s economic order isn’t just squeezing dollars out of the wallets...
Can business put people before profits?
Gordon Gekko found religion last week. Gekko, the lead in the 1987 movie “Wall Street” about capitalism gone corruptly amok, is most...