WEALTH INEQUALITY

VIDEOS
This Potential Presidential Candidate Doesn't Like Being Called A Billionaire
Howard Schultz has been dragged for being out of touch after lamenting how “billionaire” has become a dirty word.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala - Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between - Arrivals - New York City, U.S. - 01/05/17 - Kylie Jenner. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Carlo Allegri / Reuters
IMPACT
Kylie Jenner Is 'Self-Made' And Other Myths We Tell About The Extremely Wealthy
By Laura Paddison
It's not just about hard work.
A stack of money. Heap of one hundred dollar bills on money background. Fake money. Shallow depth of field. Selective focus.
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BUSINESS
Corporations Sitting On Their Assets, Latest Stats Reveal
By Mary Papenfuss
Business isn't booming and workers' wages aren't moving, despite massive company tax cuts, according to data.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos holds up a Kindle Paperwhite during Amazon's Kindle Fire event in Santa Monica, California September 6, 2012. REUTERS/Gus Ruelas (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
GUS RUELAS / Reuters
BUSINESS
World's Wealthiest Billionaires Got Nearly $1 Trillion Richer In 2017: Bloomberg
By Dominique Mosbergen
That's trillion with a T.
Luxury boats are moored in the Monte Carlo harbour, July 2 2009. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE CITYSCAPE YACHTING)
Charles Platiau / Reuters
WORLD NEWS
The Top 1 Percent Owns Over Half Of The World's Household Wealth
By Nick Robins-Early
The very, very rich are getting very, very richer.
White House senior policy advisor Stephen Miller (R) joins Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to discuss U.S. immigration policy at the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S. August 2, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
POLITICS
No, Stephen Miller, Immigration Is Not A Major Cause Of Income Inequality
By Daniel Marans
Not even close.
POLITICS
Déjà vu All Over Again: The GOP Prepares to Make the Rich Even Richer
By Tim Koechlin, Contributor
Director, International Studies Program, Vassar College
Despite this grim reality, the Republican Party's economic policy agenda has not changed for decades. Cut taxes for the 1
WORLDPOST
How Islamic finance can help address global inequity
By Naser Haghamed, Contributor
CEO of Islamic Relief Worldwide, an independent humanitarian a...
POLITICS
Make Democracy Work
By Edward Corcoran, Contributor
Senior Fellow
The central shortcoming, the root of all this disarray, is that the United States has failed to demonstrate democratic governance
BLACK VOICES
Black Wealth Hardly Exists, Even When You Include NBA, NFL And Rap Stars
By Antonio Moore, Contributor
Los Angeles Attorney, Emmy Nominated Producer 'Freeway Crack i...
In addition, a middle white America overexposed to a few million-dollar NBA stars, has become apathetic to the normal plight
RELIGION
The Trump Bible
By J. H. McKenna, Ph.D., Contributor
Senior Lecture, History of Religious Ideas, U of CA Irvine
Because the wealthy are despoiled, because the wealthy groan, I will rise up and place them in the safety for which they
BUSINESS
How corporate America can curb income inequality and make more money too
By The Conversation US, Contributor
Views from experts in academia, providing fact-based analysis ...
An option for breaking this economically destructive cycle, which almost never gets considered, is for firms to lobby to
WOMEN
How I'm Paying My Dues And Coping With Resenting Rich Peers
By Christine Stoddard, Contributor
Christine Stoddard is a writer, artist, and the editor of Quai...
In college, I typically worked about 20 hours a week but pushed myself to do more when I could. Even with my parents' help
GPS FOR THE SOUL
Angle of Descent, Part II -- Seeds of Despair
By Alan Briskin, Contributor
Author, artist, and leadership consultant
POLITICS
What The Media Isn't Telling You About Clinton and Trump's Shared Conflict Of Interest
By Bill Blum, Contributor
Lawyer, retired judge, novelist, columnist @truthdig, and lect...
The only ways Clinton and Trump could truly deflect conflict-of-interest scandals would be for the former to close down the Clinton Foundation, and for Trump to hold one giant IPO for his holdings. But even if they did, neither would pose a challenge to corporate dominance.
BUSINESS
Trump's And Clinton's Economy Plans: Eight Essential Reads
By The Conversation US, Contributor
Views from experts in academia, providing fact-based analysis ...
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump gave dueling economic addresses this week, offering contrasting visions of where we are now and where each candidate would like to take us.
BUSINESS
What factors influence income inequality?
By The Conversation US, Contributor
Views from experts in academia, providing fact-based analysis ...
The latest data on the U.S. puts it somewhere in the middle, at 0.41. Our analysis showed that the median age of the population
POLITICS
Real And Phony Problems With Our Trade Deals
By Andy Schmookler, Contributor
Andy Schmookler is an author, former Democratic nominee for Co...
According to Mr. Trump, the United States has been had -- out-bargained and out-maneuvered by other nations. So our country gets hurt by the deals, while other nations make out like bandits. But there's no sign of that.
WELLNESS
The Growing Diet Divide Between Rich And Poor In America
By STAT, Contributor
Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine.
Much like our politics and our incomes, the way Americans eat is becoming more and more divided
BLACK VOICES
How Decades of Housing Policy Left Households of Color Behind--And What We Can Do about It
By Lillian D. Singh, Contributor
Director, Racial Wealth Divide Initiative @ Prosperity Now
Since June is also National Homeownership Month, there is no better time to think about how policy could, though belatedly, change the financial futures of millions of households of color by expanding access to homeownership.
sunset traffic on 3rd Street in International Falls, know as the 'Icebox of the Nation' with winter temperatures falling to -40 degrees F - a small town on the Canadian border in an area famous for fishing, boating, canoeing, snowmobiling near Voyageurs National Park - International Falls, Minnesota - USA
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BUSINESS
These Are The Richest Towns In Every State
Urban centers often have at their perimeters small towns with well-educated, wealthy residents. States without such large
POLITICS
The Great Middle Class Awakening and Its Torchbearer
By Llewellyn King, Contributor
Journalist, broadcaster, public speaker
But Smith is not a polemicist. He uses the reporter's tools, honed over decades in Moscow and Washington and on big stories, like the civil rights movement and the fall of the Soviet Union, to make his points against the assault on the middle class.
POLITICS
An Embarrassment of Riches: Why Rich is Never Rich Enough
By Gabe Fenigsohn, Contributor
Gabe Fenigsohn is a progressive writer, researcher and opiner ...
When Governor Chris Christie famously said, "I don't consider myself a wealthy man," the $699,000 earner with a net worth
POLITICS
How Our Capitalist Society Is Like 'The Matrix'
By Cody Cain, Contributor
Writer and commentator in New York City
Our lives seem normal. Just like in the beginning of the movie, 'The Matrix.' I mean, not great or anything. But fine. We get up every morning and repeat our programmed daily grind. But is this all there is? Is this all life has to offer?
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