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Norway, now maybe more than any other nation, is really working to share the wealth.

The super rich, worldwide, are regularly cowing their critics. Bay Staters have pounded back.

Psychologists are helping us understand how inequality is conditioning us to accept lower ethical standards.

...and an outrageously large share of the wealth the rest of us have created

Analysts across the political spectrum challenge massive paychecks of corporate chiefs—and whether companies can survive without them.

"Leaving the rich out of the equation." Sam Pizzigati reports on the protest by economists worldwide against the World Bank's "shared prosperity" method of tracking gaps in income and wealth.  By Sam Pizzigati  Inequality.org Been eating a bit too much ice cream this sweltering summer? Thin

Albert Bigelow was commanding the destroyer escort U.S.S. Dale W. Peterson as it sailed into Pearl Harbor when he learned that Hiroshima had just been destroyed…

CPUSA Statement on the Removal of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn’s Historical Marker in New Hampshire: In early May, the historical marker for Elizabeth Gurley Flynn at…

Sam Pizzigati considers new research on the U.S. mid-century home ownership boom in the context of today’s record levels of inequality.  By Sam Pizzigati  Inequality.org Amazing things can happen when societies realize they don’t need the awesomely affluent. What sort of amazing things? Ta

Sam Pizzigati, veteran labor journalist and Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow, 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).