Stories by Sam Pizzigati

That's where we seem to be headed, as we shed decent American jobs.

In any society where wealth and income concentrate overwhelmingly at the top, the affluent will almost always come to sneer at public services and the individuals who provide them.

Wasn't increased productivity supposed to lower prices, liberate workers, and give us more time to enjoy our lives? A new EPI report tells us why that that promise failed.

Today we take the idea of a minimum wage for granted. Who knows what tomorrow may bring?

You don't have to make a million to rate as an all-star greedster. You do have to be ruthless, self-absorbed and grossly insensitive.

Many billionaires are bankrolling "reforms" that threaten public education as we know it.

By feeding the rich and their corporations one massive tax break after another, lawmakers have thrown a monstrous monkey wrench into our national finances.

Hedge fund honchos bet on everything from gold to lawsuits. But their big bet is that we won't wise up to the giveaway our current tax code ladles on them.

A simple but powerful chant is now starting to reverberate, all across the country, in protests against budgets cuts gone wild.

In the middle decades of the 20th century, the steeply graduated progressive income tax meant that the super-rich saw their share of the nation’s income drop precipitously.

Cuomo and Brown are attacking the notion that the public policies we choose, the public goods we provide, can create better lives -- the core of America’s middle class.

A widely overlooked provision in last month’s tax cut deal is going to speed even more wealth to America’s Paris Hilton set.

We have more inequality today than we had back in 1990, the year the UN Human Development Index first appeared.

For the ultra-wealthy masked behind the shadowy network, political contributions offer a return few other investments can match.

The ten richest Americans on the new Forbes list carry, all by themselves, more than the inflation-adjusted net worth of the entire initial Forbes 400 list back in 1982.

The huge pay gaps between executives and workers enhance the sense of power bosses feel and cause them to objectify lower level employees.

New scientific research shows that Wall Street's war on the middle class is sabotaging our longevity.

We need more protection from corporate greed than the current mainstream antidotes provide. Americans get this. Too bad moderate reformers don't.

As the big bank bonus grab shifts into overdrive, doing "God's work" has never seemed so lucrative.