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Sam Pizzigati

  • June 12, 2024

    Pulling the red carpet

    With climate change raising water levels, seaside homes on this Massachusetts island now have a nasty habit of “falling into the ocean.”

  • October 19, 2023

    Wasting wealth

    Republicans in Congress, meanwhile, are pushing a budget for next year that would chop IRS funding by $67 billion

  • September 21, 2023

    Strike against inequality

    This past Thursday night, just hours before the expiration of the United Auto Workers contract with Detroit’s Big Three, UAW president Shawn Fain...

  • January 30, 2023

    Corporate power

    Federal prosecutors last month charged the crypto currency CEO phenom Sam Bankman-Fried with committing “one of the biggest financial frauds in...

  • July 19, 2022

    Excessive wealth disorder

    If Dustin Hoffman should ever do a remake of The Graduate, the classic 1967 film that launched his famed cinematic career, what might be the 2020s...

  • June 21, 2022

    Approach to retirement

    Do you have a good pension? Do you have any pension at all? Back in 1975, most Americans who worked for established employers could say that they do...

  • June 14, 2022

    The income gap

    How far off the charts has compensation for America’s top corporate CEOs soared? Let’s use Peter Drucker as our reference point.Management...

  • April 20, 2022

    How rich are the richest?

    How rich have America’s richest become? These days, we like to think we know the answer. After all, we get from investigators at ‘Forbes’...

  • November 10, 2021

    At workers’ expense

    The vision currently driving automation comes from our high-tech corporate giants, mostly in the United States and China, that are now laying out...

  • April 21, 2021

    Civilized societies

    What makes a society civilized? In a word: limits. Civilized societies – to protect and enhance the greater good – set limits on how people...

  • February 22, 2021

    Rising inequality

    Back in April 2017, only a few months after Donald Trump’s inauguration, one of world’s most prestigious medical journals, the London-based...

  • January 06, 2021

    Unequal world

    Remember that old joke they used to tell -- and maybe still do -- in luxury retail circles? The customer, precious product in hand, walks over to a...

  • September 29, 2020

    A broken democracy

    A White House that muses openly about not counting votes. A Senate rushing to cement in place a fiercely conservative Supreme Court. We have plenty...

  • March 05, 2020

    Unequal and unsafe

    Do you know someone who’s died in a car crash? If you live in the United States, the odds say you probably do. We’ve been averaging over 40,000...

  • February 11, 2020

    Living in inequality

    The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released some welcome news late last month: Americans are living a tiny bit longer. In 2018, the...

  • February 08, 2020

    Unequal societies

    Irrelevance can sometimes be liberating, and, at the United Nations in New York, folks have been feeling fairly irrelevant for quite some time...

  • October 11, 2019

    Short lives

    What do the folks at the US Census Bureau do between the census they run every 10 years? All sorts of annual surveys, on everything from housing...

  • August 01, 2019

    The inequality crisis

    Should we care how much wealth our wealthiest are grabbing? The flacks who seek deep-pocket favor have a ready response. Of course not, they tell...

  • June 17, 2019

    Survive without empathy?

    As anyone who keeps a household budget can attest, the unexpected happens all the time. A refrigerator evaporator fan motor fails. Some part on your...

  • January 28, 2019

    Killer wealth

    We either keep fossil fuels in the ground, or we fry. That’s the conclusion of another new blockbuster study on climate change, this one from the...

  • October 17, 2018

    An unequal world

    Two meticulously sourced – and deeply disturbing – warnings about our shared global future have appeared over the past week. One has terrified...

  • July 18, 2018

    Tax the rich

    The United States ended the 20th century on a roll – for the rich. Between 1973 and 2000, the nation’s most prosperous 1 percent tripled their...

  • June 01, 2018

    Rich CEOs

    No single statistic, in isolation, tells us particularly much. Numbers only gain real meaning when we compare them. Take, for instance, the figure...