Inequality

Sam Pizzigati: Today, more than ever, we need to refocus the federal ‘tax and spend’ debate - from deficits to inequality.

Hundreds of federally-contracted workers protest against the largest low wage job creator, the federal government.

A global war to resurrect a sense of

In today's On the News segment: According to a new report from economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, based on numbers from the internal revenue service, the top ten …

Salvatore Babones: The economy is growing, but most workers are left behind.

We are witnessing transitions from social-welfare states to social-control states around the world.

Societies that let wealth concentrate at enormously intense levels will quite predictably end up with a wealthy who can concentrate enormous resources on getting their way.

Moral status or dignity is not tied to a narrow quality or capacity such as medical, mathematical or linguistic knowledge.

Just as Wall Street is now largely about ripping off suckers, the high tech world of Silicon Valley seems to have evolved into the West Coast version.

One of the biggest myths about the United States is that it's a mostly ‘middle class’ society, with poverty confined to a minority of the population; the reality is …