Sam Pizzigati
Sam Pizzigati co-edits Inequality.org. His recent books include: "The Case for a Maximum Wage" (2018) and "The Rich Don't Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970" (2012).
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Views Wednesday, November 28, 2012 To Move Forward, We Must Learn from Our Progressive Past Our contemporary billionaires, most Americans would agree, are exploiting our labor and polluting our politics. Can we shrink our super rich down to a less powerful — and more democratic — size? Of course we can. We Americans, after all, have already done that before. Read more |
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Views Monday, September 24, 2012 The 'Self-Made' Hallucination of America's Rich Let's cut Mitt Romney some slack. Not every off-the-cuff comment he made at that now infamous, secretly taped $50,000-a-plate fundraiser in Boca Raton reveals an utterly shocking personal failing. Take, for instance, Mitt's remark that he has "inherited nothing." Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 11, 2012 Virtually, Anything Goes with Online Education The sounds of September: school bells ringing, loose-leaf binders snapping open and shut, sneakers squeaking on gymnasium floors. Next to apple pie, what could possibly be more American than these familiar sounds and the local public schools where we hear them? Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 04, 2012 Playing Patent Games -- And Cashing In Big Why do CEOs make so much ? Do they just have more smarts than the rest of us? Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 28, 2012 A Bold New Call for a 'Maximum Wage' How about taking a moment this Labor Day to reflect about those Americans who earn the least for their labor? Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 22, 2012 We're All Subsidizing Free Lunches for America's CEOs A generation ago, on National Secretary's Day, America's top corporate executives used to take their prized office assistants out to lunch. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 14, 2012 The 64-Gazillion-Dollar Question Peter Edelman has battled poverty for nearly half a century — first as a top aide to Senator Robert Kennedy, later as a state and federal official, and currently as a key figure at a widely respected law and public policy center in Washington. Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 22, 2012 Mitt’s Offshore Shenanigans: The Bigger Story Are America’s rich getting richer? They’re certainly making much more than ever before. Every official income measure we have shows that America’s most affluent are upping their incomes at a much faster clip than everyone else. Read more |
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Views Monday, June 25, 2012 Founders Would Be Unamused by Tea Party's 'No Taxes' Schtick Not too long ago, Americans only dressed up in George Washington wigs and tri-corner hats on the Fourth of July. But then the tea party came along. Colonial garb started turning up at rallies all year around. In quick order, the legacy of 1776 started "belonging" to the tea party crowd. The Founding Fathers, the tea partisans claimed, wouldn't abide government interference in their lives. And neither should we. If we today just stayed true to 1776, the United States would remain forever "exceptional." Read more |
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Views Monday, May 21, 2012 Facebook and Tahrir Square, Revisited Remember the heady days of the Arab spring? People in motion. Democracy breaking out all over. And right in the middle of everything... Facebook! Read more |