The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
Emmanuel Saez
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Time for Pitchforks: Why The Obscene Wealth Gap Can Only Mean One Thing
Americans greatly underestimate the degree of inequality in our country – and if we were given proper media coverage of the endless takeaway of wealth by the super rich, we'd be taking it personally.
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Corporate Profits and the Amazing Wealth Surge For The Top 0.1 Percent
New research finds that richest 0.1 percent of Americans have doubled their share of the pie, dramatically expanding their portion of the country's wealth in three decades.
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Recipe For Revolt: America Is Wealthier But Americans Are Poorer
Latest data on capital gains show enormous windfalls for wealthiest at the expense of vast majority of Americans.
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Unequal States of America: New Report Shows the Geography of U.S. Income Inequality
The top 1% captured all of the income growth between 2009 and 2011 in 26 out of the 50 states.
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Counting the Dollars the Rich Want Uncounted
Americans are gaining, ever so slowly, a more accurate picture of just how wide the gap has stretched between the nation’s most fabulously privileged and everyone else.