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 Monday, May 14, 2012 No Country for Rich Men Back in 1863, a short story took the American reading public by storm. Edward Everett Hale's The Man without a Country told the tale of a poor treasonous soul sentenced to spend the rest of his life endlessly sailing the world in perpetual exile, as a prisoner aboard Navy warships. Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 03, 2012 A Rich Man's Message to America: You Need Us To Get Even Richer! How can you tell a really smart rich guy from a really silly one? The really smart one would never spend four years writing a book that tries to justify the incredible riches of incredibly rich people. Mega-millionaire Edward Conard has done just that. Read more |
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Views Monday, April 16, 2012 Pothole Nation Investing in infrastructure used to be a political no-brainer. Politicians of nearly every ideological stripe supported government spending on everything from school buildings to bridges. Read more |
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Views Monday, December 12, 2011 Presenting America’s Ten Greediest of 2011 The greediest among us in 2011 probably haven’t been any greedier, as a gang, than any greedy of the recent past. They just seem that way. Why so? We have a whole new frame of reference. This fall’s sudden — and exhilarating — rise of the Occupy movement has helped us remember what we, as a society, had sadly forgotten: that decent, smart societies never let the few grab away rewards that ought to be shared among the many. Read more |
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Views Friday, December 09, 2011 Tis the Season to Be Jolly on Wall Street, Still Financial industry insiders are grousing about a big downturn in annual bonuses. They should be thanking the rest of us - bombshell new research shows - for their continuing awesome good tidings. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 08, 2011 For the Corporate 1 Percenters, a 50 Percent Tax Discount Over a quarter century ago, in 1984, the Washington, D.C.-based Citizens for Tax Justice released its first in-depth report on how much America's top profitable corporations were actually paying in taxes. America's top companies, this initial study found, were paying only 14.1 percent of their profits in taxes, less than a third of the corporate tax rate then in effect. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 30, 2011 Remembering the Moment Our CEOs Dug In Forty years ago, U.S. corporate honchos saw their power ebbing away - to a ragtag mob of long-hairs and loony social reformers. So they did what corporate honchos always do. They asked for a memo. Read more |
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Views Monday, August 29, 2011 A Tip for Joe the Machinist: Watch Your Back You work hard. You do good work. You loyally stick with your employer through good times and bad. Do you have a right to a paycheck that rises over time? On any Labor Day over the last 50 years, the answer — from labor and management alike — would be obvious: Of course! Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 02, 2011 Doing Debt Ceiling Battle the FDR Way Against a Congress where zealously rich people-friendly conservatives hold the upper hand, how much can a President of the United States committed to greater equality realistically hope to accomplish? Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 20, 2011 Deconstructing the “Federal Debt Crisis” Once upon a time in America, back a century ago, our nation's rich paid virtually nothing in taxes to the federal government. And that same federal government did virtually nothing to better the lives of average Americans. Read more |