Want Debt-Free College? Tax the Rich. Want Debt-Free College? Tax the Rich.
A 1 percent tax on concentrated wealth would erase student debt over a decade and bring the cost of public higher education to zero.
Feb 18, 2016 / Feature / Sarah Anderson, Marc Bayard, John Cavanagh, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie, and Sam Pizzigati
Offshore Tax Havens Are Strangling Local Government Offshore Tax Havens Are Strangling Local Government
The super-rich have stashed more than $1 trillion overseas. Bringing it home would help restore poor communities.
Feb 18, 2016 / Feature / Sarah Anderson, Marc Bayard, John Cavanagh, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie, and Sam Pizzigati
How US Tax Policy Encourages Outrageous CEO Compensation How US Tax Policy Encourages Outrageous CEO Compensation
This loophole will cost the federal treasury an estimated $50 billion over the next decade.
Feb 18, 2016 / Feature / Sarah Anderson, Marc Bayard, John Cavanagh, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie, and Sam Pizzigati
Swiss Activists: Let’s Cap CEO Pay Swiss Activists: Let’s Cap CEO Pay
An initiative to do just that failed at the ballot box, but gave us all some welcome inspiration.
Dec 2, 2013 / Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati
The Great Regression The Great Regression
The decline of the progressive income tax and the rise of inequality.
Feb 6, 2013 / Feature / Sam Pizzigati and Chuck Collins
Why Greater Equality Strengthens Society Why Greater Equality Strengthens Society
What US progressives can learn from British efforts to fight inequality.
Dec 6, 2011 / Feature / Sam Pizzigati
OWS Revives the Struggle for Economic Equality OWS Revives the Struggle for Economic Equality
Inspired by struggles overseas and in the past, the protests have brought the wealth gap back to the center of political debate.
Oct 26, 2011 / Feature / Sam Pizzigati
Pay-Cap Populism Pay-Cap Populism
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.
Feb 12, 2009 / Editorial / Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati
An Epoch Named! An Epoch Named!
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....
Jan 16, 2009 / Feature / Chuck Collins and Sam Pizzigati
Ending Plutocracy: A 12-Step Program Ending Plutocracy: A 12-Step Program
Our forebears struggled to survive in a world dominated by the superrich. Now it's our turn.
Jun 11, 2008 / Feature / Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati