Sam Pizzigati
LATEST ARTICLES BY Sam Pizzigati
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Politics
Inequality and the iron law of decaying public services
November 19, 2019Chronically understaffed local fire departments simply don’t have the resources to handle Act #1 of what climate change has in store for us.
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Opinion
Canadian health care getting attention in U.S. election; how about income inequality?
September 13, 2019The faster that income and wealth concentrate at the top, the worse off the daily lives of average people become.
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U.S.
Have the rich always laughed stiff tax rates away?
March 1, 2019No wonder the U.S. finishes near the top of the world’s wealthier nations in the income inequality spread between the rich and the rest of us.
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News
The House has gone Democratic. Can its majority now go bold?
November 21, 2018
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Labor
Corporate wage theft is on the rise
July 2, 2018Grand Theft Paycheck, a landmark new study from Good Jobs First and the Jobs with Justice Education Fund, examines over 1,200 lawsuits against wage theft that groups of workers have won since 2000. Employers in these...
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U.S.
Trump calls it tax reform, we call it an outrage
October 30, 2017The Trump tax plan makes the U.S. tax code even more millionaire-friendly than the current code.
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Opinion
CEO payouts soar, but what new products are they making?
June 28, 2017Making breakthroughs for consumers is hard, companies have found. But making fortunes for CEOs is easy.
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Opinion
The corporate choice—create real value or grand fortunes
June 22, 2017If downsizings and mergers don’t do the trick, CEOs can always just slash worker pensions and/or cut budgets for R&D and put the resulting “savings” into dividends and “buybacks,” two slick corporate maneuvers that jack up...
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