income inequality

The Big Economic Switcheroo

Wealthy Americans finance the federal government mainly by lending it money and collecting interest payments on those loans, profiting when the rest of us pay them back. It's time to follow the money.

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Prices, Plutocrats and Corporate Concentration

The larger our corporations become, the more unequal our societies become. But tougher antitrust enforcement and other legislative solutions could slow our rates of corporate concentration.

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What Does Inequality Cost the Average American? About $150K

Americans pay a steep price for not spreading their wealth around as well as other developed countries.

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This is How Republics End

Warnings from the fall of Rome.

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Report reveals: World's billionaires became 20% richer in 2017

Billionaires made more money last year than in any year in recorded history, increasing their wealth by $1.4 trillion, more than the GDP of Spain.

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Britain’s Widening Wealth Inequality Demands Sweeping Reform, Report Says

Britain needs to make extensive changes to recover from its economy's failings, rising inequality and the destructive inheritance of the financial crisis, according to a new report.

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America’s Homelessness Crisis Is Deepening

More than half a million people in the United States are homeless on any given night, and with housing prices rising and wages stagnant, the problem will only keep getting worse.

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An Arena Full of the Richest Americans Would Own As Much Wealth as 70% of the World

That’s 25,000 American adults – the richest .01% of America – who together own nearly $10 trillion, approximately the total wealth owned by 3.5 billion adults globally.

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