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If you like looking good, you ought to fear what rising levels of inequality are doing to America’s apparel future
Sam Pizzigati
Sam Pizzigati, an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, has written widely on income and wealth concentration, with op-eds and articles in publications ranging from the New York Times to Le Monde Diplomatique. He co-edits Inequality.org Among his books: The Rich Don’t Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970 (Seven Stories Press). His latest book: The Case for a Maximum Wage (Polity). A veteran labor movement journalist, Pizzigati spent 20 years directing publishing at America’s largest union, the 3.2 million-member National Education Association.
Taxes on the wealthy should be linked not just to the top of the income ladder, but also to the bottom
Senator Ron Wyden is digging imaginatively into the innards of taxing capital gains
In a deeply unequal America, a deeply unequal system of higher education
Levels of helicopter parenting, they note, turn out to track with levels of economic inequality. The wider a society’s income gaps, their data indicate, the more intense parents become, the more they hover
Those rare moments when our political class suddenly starts viewing the nation’s richest through a skeptical lens can help trigger real social change
Millions of years ago, life on Earth survived an existential climate crisis. But that Earth had a distinct advantage: no rich people
The underlying thrust: Let’s deny government contracts, subsidies and tax breaks to corporations that pay their top executives immoderately more than their workers
Has Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Just Turned It?
The idea that our tax dollars should not go to corporations that that pay their CEOs hundreds of times what they pay their workers: that’s a popular idea