Sam Pizzigati
LATEST ARTICLES BY Sam Pizzigati
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U.S.
Donald Trump: success and excess
August 13, 2015Trump has said some stupendously outrageous things in his bid for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, revealing the attitudes of extremely rich people.
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U.S.
Antidotes to inequality — time for some $58,000 traffic tickets?
May 6, 2015The protests that followed last year's deadly Ferguson police shooting have revealed how local courts are gouging poor people on fines for minor offenses.
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Labor
CEO pay continues to spin out of control
June 13, 2014Could we see a new movement to leverage the power of the public purse against the corporate pay policies that do so much to leave us more unequal?
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Opinion
$5.2 billion McDonald’s CEO has $8.25 per hour mom arrested
October 24, 2013Her treatment is one of many examples of how the gap between the rich and the poor isn't just a modern phenomenon; these days it's grown into a chasm.
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U.S.
Plutocratic push at the Supreme Court
October 17, 2013Watergate? If the Supreme Court ends all limits on what our super rich can throw into election campaigns, U.S. politics faces dangers more troubling than anything Richard Nixon ever created.
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U.S.
A rising tide lifts only yachts?
September 19, 2013Letting wealth concentrate "at the very top," President Obama said, has been both "morally wrong" and "bad economics."
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Opinion
Does inequality have a silver lining?
August 14, 2013An insider is spilling the beans on the great unsaid in charitable circles: You can't ignore inequality and hope to fix an unequal world.
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U.S.
Snooping and spying for profit
June 19, 2013Protecting privacy in a dangerous world will never be easy. But we'll never have even a shot at protecting it until we take the profit out of violating it.
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