inequality – Page 18 – People's World

Populism 2015 Conference launches campaign for “new” economy

April 21, 2015 By Larry Rubin

They came from across America to launch a wide ranging, broad-based plan to make things right.

Wall Street bonuses equaled double annual pay of minimum wage workers

March 17, 2015 By Sarah Anderson

Wall Street banks handed out $28.5 billion in bonuses to their 167,800 employees last year, up 3 percent over 2013, according to figures from the NY State Comptroller.

Wealth concentration report blasts hole in right-wing policies

January 30, 2015 By Stewart Acuff

We are headed to a world where just one percent of the population own and control more than all the rest of us combined.

What is “inclusive prosperity?”

January 26, 2015 By John Case

President'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.

Economists fight over “Capital”: Piketty vs. establishment

January 7, 2015 By John Case

A 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.