Inequality

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 …

Among those who have left their mark in Mexican-American history, are the Dream 9, undocument US citizens since they were small children, who face charges having challenged US immigration …

Researchers have found that when you factor race into the equation, the economic gap is even more pronounced.

Fast food workers in other countries earn the equivalent of $15 an hour and enjoy benefits, yet hamburgers cost no more.