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* Welfare spending vital to bridging growing wealth gap - OECD * Rich-poor divided widened quickly after financial crisis ...
A concern about protecting retirees who rely on out-of-state bonds makes sense. But using that argument to protect a tax shelter for multi-millionaires does not.
The Great Recession decimated the wealth of many Americans, but the downturn hit black and Hispanic families especially hard, a new study finds, widen...
Is there some subterranean -- even subversive -- connection between spring celebration of the Earth and spring celebration of work and time for rest?
Attacking the Republicans for their indifference to inequality is like shooting fish in a barrel. There is no shortage of examples showing how little...
I'm a member of a group of wealthy people advocating for more progressive taxation so that we can build a society with a healthier balance. I know the notion of "job creators" like me advocating for higher taxes on the wealthy infuriates many, but I think doing so is patriotic.
Unfortunately, the inevitable social explosion that their grasping for unlimited political power and even greater concentration of income and wealth than presently exists will produce collateral damage and unpredictable outcomes.
While in theory the system pays people for responsible decision-making, in practice it rewards executives for generating outsize returns even at the expense of the company's future.
We have to do more than tread water. The sense of urgency is great. A new wave of civic engagement in communities of color is necessary to move this agenda forward. It is the only way that opportunity for all will be attainable.
African-Americans bear a disproportionate amount of consumer debt in our nation’s economy. The wealth gap between African-Americans and average Amer...
America's yawning racial wealth gap gets mentioned only rarely in political and policy discussions -- perhaps the only thing rarer is for a political leader to suggest that this problem can actually be fixed.
The wealth gap between blacks and whites has ballooned since the middle of the Reagan administration, nearly tripling between 1984 and 2009, according...
It is time for all top wage earners and all the other Social Security mythmakers to put away their bad ideas and silence their propaganda for the real good of America.
The idea of using economic hardship as a determinant for socially progressive programs is not new and was even considered by President Lyndon Johnson and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but has never been entertained seriously due to a lack of political will.
The struggle to make ends meet and the incidental factors that accompany living in poverty conditions, such as sleep deprivation, poor health care, long commutes to work, lack of free time to further education, etc. -- all make it nearly impossible for such people to train themselves.
"Quite frankly, I think that Obama's programs have prevented poverty, including concentrated poverty, from rapidly rising, considering the terrible economy."
The world's richest people just got richer. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the 100 richest people in the world added $241 billion t...
In the U.S., the 400 richest people now have as much wealth as 185 million people combined, nearly 60 percent of the entire population. Millionaire households have at least $46 trillion in wealth, yet only one-tenth of one percent of the population makes one million dollars a year.
By linking the welfare of working-class Americans directly to the prosperity of the rich, the Republicans can protect the insulated interests of corporations and the wealthy without the fear of backlash.
In fact, taking inflation into account, the highest minimum wage occurred in 1968, when it was the equivalent of $10.38/hour in today's dollars, which means that the real minimum wage has actually declined. This presents three big problems.
Raising taxes on the rich, who usually pay a lower rate than everyone else because of the loopholes available to them, is not about redistribution of wealth but about creating a level economic playing field for all Americans.
Would you like a $100,000 grant to test an idea or implement an innovation you've developed? That's a question the federal government is asking -- but few minorities are responding.
Joe the Plumber and other fans of great fortune don't have much problem with this huge accumulation of wealth at America's economic summit. What about the rest of us? Should we be concerned?
An indicator of their fealty to corporate money, mainstream media and both political parties dance around a primary means to address both inflationary health costs and deficits: Improved Medicare-for-All as Major Deficit Reduction.
