inequality
What is “inclusive prosperity?”
January 26, 2015President's Obama's State of the Union address included a welcome centerpiece proposal taxing finance capital and the rich, and giving it to the middle class and poor.
Read moreEconomists fight over “Capital”: Piketty vs. establishment
January 7, 2015A Harvard economist was reduced to making personal attacks as he tried to evade Thomas Piketty's key theses about capitalism and its tendencies toward unsustainable inequality.
Read moreNew UAW president out to end inequality
December 16, 2014In a Q and A with journalists from Detroit and across the country, addressing "inequality" in the workplace and community was a common thread.
Read moreSouthern town government refuses to remove Confederate flag
November 12, 2014A local museum's request to remove a Confederate flag was rejected by the City Council in a poor, struggling former textile town.
Read moreWanted: an economy that puts people first
November 12, 2014I have a confession to make. In the series of articles I have supposedly been writing about income inequality, I have really been writing about something else: need.
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