Sam Pizzigati
Sam Pizzigati co-edits Inequality.org and also contributes regularly to OurFuture.org. His most recent book: The Rich Don't Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970 (Seven Stories Press).
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Views Monday, June 30, 2014 America’s CEOs: In a Class All by Themselves The free market made us do it. Ask members of any American corporate board of directors why they pay their CEO so much and you’ll get some variation on this market-inevitability theme. To compete effectively in the world economy, Corporate America’s argument goes, we need world-class executive... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 16, 2014 A New Spin from the Inequality Denialist Set The go-to intellectual guardians of our corporate order — those conservative analysts whose op-eds appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal — have a problem. Their defense of plutocracy just isn’t selling. Two events this spring have now put this failure in particularly stark relief. First came... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 09, 2014 The Many Pipelines that Pump Our Wealth Up Back in 1979, notes a new Economic Policy Institute report released last week, households in America’s statistical middle — the 20 percent of households making more than the nation’s poorest 40 percent and less than the nation’s most affluent 40 percent — averaged $16.72, after inflation, per hour... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 28, 2014 The Big Tip That America’s Servers Never See A good many Americans now know the high-finance games that JPMorgan Chase and other big banks like to play — at our expense. And big oil giants like ExxonMobil have been outraging Americans for years. But plenty of other corporate giants that inflate our inequality have been flying under the radar... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 25, 2014 America’s Last Throwback to Plutocracy 1.0 Let us pause now to pay our respects to Bunny Mellon. She died last week on her 4,000-acre farm in Virginia’s fabled horse country. But no tears, please. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 26, 2014 The Mess on Our ‘Information Superhighway’ Back in the early 1990s, the infancy of the Internet Age, our hippest policy wonks orated endlessly about the emerging “information superhighway.” Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 19, 2014 We’ve Got a Long Way to Go, Baby When General Motors named Mary Barra the company’s new CEO in December, the announcement made instant headlines. No woman had ever steered a major global automaker . Read more |
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Views Sunday, January 12, 2014 The New War on Inequality: Just Rhetoric? Exactly a half-century ago, in 1964, a President of the United States announced a “war on poverty.” That war would soon dominate the nation’s domestic political discourse — and make a real difference. Read more |
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Views Sunday, January 05, 2014 Could 2014 Be Year One of the Pay Ratio Era? From the White House to the Vatican, everyone these days seems to be talking about income inequality. But our politics hasn’t kept up. Concrete proposals that could actually narrow the gap between the rich and the rest of us haven’t yet moved onto our public policy center stage. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 25, 2013 A Year of Delightful Egalitarian Imagination Economic inequality, we suspect, may have crept into more conversations in 2013 than ever before. But people aren’t just talking about how unequal we’ve become. They’re talking about antidotes to the avarice all around us. Read more |