Sam Pizzigati

Sam Pizzigati, an Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow, is the author of the just-published The Rich Don’t Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph Over Plutocracy That Created the American Middle Class, 1900–1970 (Seven Stories Press). With Chuck Collins, he edits Inequality.Org.

Articles

The Great Regression (Economic Policy, Gap Between Wealth and Poverty, Taxes)

The decline of the progressive income tax and the rise of inequality.

Sam Pizzigati and Chuck Collins

Why Greater Equality Strengthens Society (Social Justice, Ethical Economics, The Left, World)

What US progressives can learn from British efforts to fight inequality.

Sam Pizzigati

OWS Revives the Struggle for Economic Equality (Occupy Wall Street, Gap Between Wealth and Poverty)

Inspired by struggles overseas and in the past, the protests have brought the wealth gap back to the center of political debate.

Sam Pizzigati

Pay-Cap Populism (Ethical Economics, Economy)

Excessive executive pay endangers our public well-being as surely as any pollutants. Obama's $500,000 pay cap is just a start at fixing the problem.

Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati

An Epoch Named! (Gap Between Wealth and Poverty, Economy)

Your submissions to the Name Our Epoch contest were awesome: The Age of Avarice, The Crassical Period, The Bling Bang, The New Steal. And the winner is....

Chuck Collins and Sam Pizzigati

Ending Plutocracy: A 12-Step Program (Ethical Economics, Economy)

Our forebears struggled to survive in a world dominated by the superrich. Now it's our turn.

Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati