“Leaving the rich out of the equation.” Sam Pizzigati reports on the protest by economists worldwide against the World Bank’s “shared prosperity” method of tracking gaps in income and wealth.
The World Bank’s Way of Tracking Inequality
Tag: Income Inequality
Biden’s Industry-Friendly Covid Test Reimbursements
The plan puts the U.S. far behind other wealthy countries, several of which have for months offered free, rapid, home Covid-19 tests to residents.
Why Europeans Live Longer Than Americans
Greater equality may well be the best medicine any doctor can ever prescribe, writes Sam Pizzigati.
Chris Hedges: Bandaging the Corpse
Biden’s bailout will not alter the structural inequities and other fundamental underpinnings of America’s death spiral.
Millionaires Have Already Stopped Paying 2021 Social Security
LEE CAMP: The Pandemic Dirty Dozen
San Franciscans Vote Overwhelmingly to Rein in Overpaid CEOs
To not only survive the pandemic but emerge as a nation that is more resilient, we need to reverse obscenely unfair pay practices, writes Sarah Anderson.
ELECTION 2020: US Suburbs & Politics Have Radically Changed
These days they vary a great deal by well-being, race and ethnicity and that makes them politically dynamic, says Jan Nijman.
The Argument for a Maximum Wage
Could British levels of support for an income cap ever take root in the U.S.? Sam Pizzigati says the idea isn’t as un-American as it may seem.
Trump’s Decade-Old Audit Illustrates Why IRS Targets Working Poor as Much as the Rich
Hayes Holderness says the fact that Trump’s taxes have been under audit since 2011 overshadows all other discoveries.