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Sam Pizzigati

Epidemics
Coronavirus and the 'Shock Doctrine': Does Even this Disaster have to Make Rich Richer and Poor Poorer?

Coronavirus and the ‘Shock Doctrine’: Does Even this Disaster have to Make Rich Richer and Poor Poorer?

Sam Pizzigati

By Sam Pizzigati and Sarah Anderson | – ( Otherwords.org) – Powerful interests used the Great Recession to hardwire more inequality into our system. This time, let’s do the opposite. By Sarah Anderson, Sam Pizzigati | March 17, 2020 We all have to come together. We need to help each other. We don’t have time […]

Donald Trump
Forget Abuse of Power, Trump's biggest Crime is Unloosing Deadly Corporate Chemicals on our Neighborhoods

Forget Abuse of Power, Trump’s biggest Crime is Unloosing Deadly Corporate Chemicals on our Neighborhoods

Sam Pizzigati

( Inequality.org) – Earlier this month, still another one-day-wonder of a Twitter storm surfaced and quickly sank in Donald Trump’s America. On January 9, President Trump claimed credit for new figures from the American Cancer Society that show — between 2016 and 2017 — “the sharpest one-year drop in cancer death rate ever recorded.” Almost […]

Inequality
How Much in ‘Inequality Tax’ Are You Paying?

How Much in ‘Inequality Tax’ Are You Paying?

Sam Pizzigati

(Inequality.org) – The hidden burden America’s top-heavy distribution of income and wealth places on people of modest means What nation ranks as the world’s richest? A simple question to answer, right. Well, not so much, suggests the just-released tenth annual Global Wealth Report from the banking giant Credit Suisse. Everything turns out to depend on […]

Health
In the Billionaires' America, Inequality Is Literally Killing Us

In the Billionaires’ America, Inequality Is Literally Killing Us

Sam Pizzigati

( Otherwords.org) – Again and again, studies show that the richer wealthy Americans become, the shorter the rest of us live. What do the folks at the U.S. Census Bureau do between the census they run every 10 years? All sorts of annual surveys, on everything from housing costs to retail sales. The most depressing […]

Climate Crisis
Democracy and the Green New Deal Demand higher Taxes on Rich

Democracy and the Green New Deal Demand higher Taxes on Rich

Sam Pizzigati

Tie the U.S. corporate tax rate to the ratio between CEO and worker pay

Climate Change
The Main Drag on Saving Planet from Boiling? The Super-Rich

The Main Drag on Saving Planet from Boiling? The Super-Rich

Sam Pizzigati

The United States, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait all just happen to rate among the world’s most unequal nations.

Inequality
How Corporate Monopolies and High Prices are Making you Poor and Rich Richer

How Corporate Monopolies and High Prices are Making you Poor and Rich Richer

Sam Pizzigati

The more industries monopolize, the wider the gap between our richest and everyone else.

Inequality
What Does Inequality Cost the Average American? About $150,000

What Does Inequality Cost the Average American? About $150,000

Sam Pizzigati

Americans pay a steep price for not spreading their wealth around as well as other developed countries.

Bernie Sanders
Democrats Need to Go Bold on Wages, Ed, or Why would their Big Win Matter?

Democrats Need to Go Bold on Wages, Ed, or Why would their Big Win Matter?

Sam Pizzigati

The party’s leaders have been far too cautious in the past. Newer ideas could spark real change in who owns and runs America.

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