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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

Working people the world over have celebrated the first of May as “International Labor Day” since 1886, when workers in the United States struggling for an

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

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, 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).

Is it time to seize pro sports teams? “Take me out to the ball game,” as baseball’s fabled 1908 classic puts it. The ancient refrain ends: “I don’t care if I never get back.”