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Economic Inequality

Income Inequality: How The Wall Street Journal Got It Wrong

businessinsider.com | Bruce Judson | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Wealthy, Income Inequality, Middle Class, Bruce Judson, Economic Inequality, Rich, Wall Street Journal, Business News

For anyone with even a passing familiarity with issues associated with economic inequality, The Wall Street Journal front page story last week was sho...

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Bleeding Heart Liberals Proven Right: Too Much Inequality Harms a Society

Robert Fuller | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Income Disparity, Economic Inequality, Sociology, Sexism, Rankism, Egalitarianism, Politics News
Robert Fuller

The well being of whole societies is closely correlated not with average income level but rather with the size of the disparity of income between the top 20% and the bottom 20%.

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Unbranding Obama

John O'Kane | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Larry Bartels, Obama Branding, Unequal Democracy, Two Party System, Obama, Larry-Bartels, Economic Inequality, Barack Obama, Politics News
John O'Kane

Obama is hardly an outsider. He's an elite member of the establishment, a product brand, as Noam Chomsky claims, packaged by investors to sell and control the public.

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Who You Callin' a Slumdog?

Sanjay Khanna | Posted 04.06.2009 | World

Read More: Poverty, Paul Krugman, Slumdog Millionaire Best Picture, Economic Inequality, Slumdog Millionaire, Sub-Prime, Oprah Winfrey, Economic Crisis, Slums, Lisa Ling, World News
Sanjay Khanna

The enthusiastic embrace of Slumdog Millionaire may actually signify a sober recognition that growing inequality has become a permanent, unchangeable facet of U.S.

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Inequality In Major US Cities Rivals Africa: Report

Reuters | Posted 11.23.2008 | Business

Read More: US Inequality, Economic Inequality, Cities, Inequality, US Cities, Business News

Major U.S. cities including New York, Washington, Atlanta and New Orleans have levels of economic inequality that rival cities in Africa, according to...

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An Obama Administration Must Deal with the Underlying Cause of Our Economic Meltdown: The Increasing Concentration of Wealth

Robert Creamer | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Economy, Employee Free Choice Act, Economic Crisis, Economic Inequality, Speculative Bubble, 2008 Presidential Election, Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News
Robert Creamer

The bottom line is that the top two percent of the population has managed to siphon off all of America's economic growth over the last eight years.

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