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Wealth Gap
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Memo to Washington: The Occupy Movement Lives
The Occupy Movement was the effect, not the cause, and it wonu2019t disappear because of the wishful thinking of a few.
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A Trumped-Up War on Welfare
One way the top 1 percent is trying to ease concerns about inequality is pretending that our safety net is too generous to the bottom 1 percent.
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Slick, the Chumps and the Bars: How the Free Market Is Sucking the Middle Class Dry
Let's analyze our current economic situation vis-u00e0-vis a simple example that cuts through all the arguments and charts and statistics and gets to the heart of the matter.
Shocking New Research Reveals Obama’s Legacy Could Be an America of Aristocrats and Peons
Inequality experts Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez reveal the biggest gap between rich and poor ever recorded by economists
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Release of New “Gatsby” Is Timely Reminder of Persistent Wealth Gap
With all the fanfare around the new movie version of The Great Gatsby, it's a good time to be reminded of the book's depiction of conspicuous consumption.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Congress Pushes for Unnecessary Tanks Despite Sequester Cuts, and More
In today's On the News segment: The wealth gap has become increasingly racialized, and more.
CEOs and the Pay-‘Em-or-Lose-‘Em Myth
A new study suggests the argument that C.E.O.'s will leave if they aren't compensated well, perhaps even lavishly, is bogus.