Mark Ames, eXiled Online. October 8, 2009. American billionaires keep cooking up scheme after scheme to shake down Americans and plunder the national wealth, as if the last one was too easy and boring.
David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. August 14, 2009. The hope/despair tightrope, established in Hughes' films, is especially pertinent in today's political climate.
David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. July 25, 2009. The wealthiest 1-percent have deployed an army to destroy an initiative that would tax the super rich to help pay for health care.
Joe Bageant, JoeBageant.com. July 18, 2009. "We're starting to hear a little discussion about the white underclass... Mainly because so many middle class folks are terrified of falling into it."
Pam Martens, CounterPunch. June 2, 2009. There's a cycle going on here: if you don't put money in consumers' hands, you get repetitive cycles of layoffs and growing unemployment.
William Greider, The Nation. May 8, 2009. Our enormous wealth and power are in decline -- yet we have a chance to fill the emptiness in our lives and give them meaning.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. April 20, 2009. Families in the top 1 percent are grabbing a rising share of the nation’s income -- why does the data show no jump in their share of the wealth?
Gar Alperovitz, Lew Daly, The New Press. December 8, 2008. America's wealth is mainly a gift of our common past -- so how is it possible to justify our stunning level of economic inequality?
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. November 6, 2008. Barack Obama won the presidency after clearly saying that he wants to spread the wealth. Let's make him do it.
Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. September 4, 2008. Last year was a weak financial time for working families, and a new report shows it reflected in our health.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. April 3, 2008. 40 years ago Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pointed to the link between war abroad and poverty at home. Sadly, his observation is just as true today.
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. April 1, 2008. To have a truly productive conversation about race we must address the wealth disparities that perpetuate racial inequality.
John Miller, Dollars and Sense. February 8, 2008. The economic recovery underway since late 2001 is probably over. Too bad many Americans never got to experience it.
Gregory Clark, Princeton University Press. November 21, 2007. Is income from immigration the best hope for developing countries? Gregory Clark's book "A Farewell to Alms" explores the wealth, and the poverty, of nations.
Paul Harris, The Observer UK. July 30, 2007. The American Dream of riches for all has turned into a nightmare of inequality: welcome to Richistan, USA.
Brydie Ragan, YES! Magazine. July 25, 2007. The public generally believes that poor lifestyle choices, faulty genes and infectious agents are the major factors that give rise to illness. Here's the rest of the story.
