Sam Pizzigati

What has the potential to save more lives, the insurance reforms in the House health care bill or the higher taxes on the rich the bill imposes to pay for those reforms? This rather odd question, suggests a new study on inequality and health, really does merit asking.

Unfortunately, lawmakers aren't doing too well either — and the big bank bonus grab has once again shifted into overdrive.

Amid double-digit joblessness, two top U.S. corporations cut still another mega merger deal that enriches executives and tosses workers, by the thousands, out onto the street.

Investing recklessness at Harvard is making 'the best and the brightest' look awfully silly — almost as silly as a nation that lets staggering quantities of wealth continue to concentrate.

The White House pay czar isn't reforming Wall Street. He's cutting deals with it. We need to understand the difference.

Can excess on Wall Street ever be ended? Maybe. Some lawmakers in France have a plan that could end it.

In a new network of 'Common Security Clubs,' activists are stitching together a challenge to Tea-Bagger rage — and the staggering inequality that breeds it.

An average American family would have to work thousands of years to amass a billion-dollar fortune. America's super rich, the new data on our richest 400 make clear, can lose a billion and barely notice.

What has the potential to save more lives, the insurance reforms in the House health care bill or the higher taxes on the rich the bill imposes to pay for those reforms? This rather odd question, suggests a new study on inequality and health, really does merit asking.

Unfortunately, lawmakers aren't doing too well either — and the big bank bonus grab has once again shifted into overdrive.

Amid double-digit joblessness, two top U.S. corporations cut still another mega merger deal that enriches executives and tosses workers, by the thousands, out onto the street.

Investing recklessness at Harvard is making 'the best and the brightest' look awfully silly — almost as silly as a nation that lets staggering quantities of wealth continue to concentrate.

The White House pay czar isn't reforming Wall Street. He's cutting deals with it. We need to understand the difference.

Can excess on Wall Street ever be ended? Maybe. Some lawmakers in France have a plan that could end it.

In a new network of 'Common Security Clubs,' activists are stitching together a challenge to Tea-Bagger rage — and the staggering inequality that breeds it.

An average American family would have to work thousands of years to amass a billion-dollar fortune. America's super rich, the new data on our richest 400 make clear, can lose a billion and barely notice.