Tag: Economic inequality
Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the...
Ray Madoff, Boston College
Ray Madoff, a Boston College law professor, has written a new book: “The Second Estate:...
A Colorado guaranteed income program could help families, but the costs...
Jennifer C. Greenfield, University of Denver; Kaitlyn M. Sims, University of Denver; Institute for Humane Studies, and Stefan Chavez-Norgaard, University of Denver
Inequality has risen from 1970 to Trump − that has 3...
Nathan Meyers, UMass Amherst
America has never been richer. But the gains are so lopsided that the top 10%...
If you think grocery prices take a big bite out of...
Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Though cynics may question her motives, Kamala Harris’ recent...
A window into the hearts and minds of billionaire donors
Hans Peter Schmitz, University of San Diego
As the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic toll increases, many billionaires and their foundations are making very public efforts to...
Brands backing Black Lives Matter: it might be a marketing ploy,...
Bree Hurst, Queensland University of Technology
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant...
How the T-Mobile-Sprint merger will increase inequality
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
A federal judge gave his blessing to the US$26.5 billion merger between T-Mobile and Sprint on Feb. 11,...
The US economy likely just entered its longest ever expansion –...
Steven Pressman, Colorado State University
The U.S. economy likely surpassed an important milestone last month: Americans are now experiencing the longest economic expansion in the...
EXPLORING NATURE
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...
Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University
Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil...
