inequality

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.

New UAW president out to end inequality

December 16, 2014 By John Rummel

In a Q and A with journalists from Detroit and across the country, addressing "inequality" in the workplace and community was a common thread.

Southern town government refuses to remove Confederate flag

November 12, 2014 By Art Cook

A local museum's request to remove a Confederate flag was rejected by the City Council in a poor, struggling former textile town.