Program on Inequality and the Common Good

If we really want to narrow our waistbands, we have to narrow the income gaps that divide us.

The telecommunications giant twisted the truth when it said it wanted to set the record straight in the Record-Journal

Families with two breadwinners can end up paying more than twice as much in Social Security taxes as families with just one income.

IPS is grateful to Bill O’Reilly for this opportunity to showcase our proud history of public scholarship on inequality, peace, justice, and the environment.

From Manhattan to Monaco, the world’s wealthiest people are disconnecting into a class of stateless transients.

Founder Amadeo P. Giannini built a booming business while helping others improve their lot and their communities.

The author of “99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It” talks about how the Obama administration deals with inequality, what social movements can do to make their voices heard, and what fellow 1% youth Mitt Romney was like.

How can you tell a really smart rich guy from a really silly one? The really smart one would never spend four years writing a book that tries to justify the incredible riches of incredibly rich people. Mega-millionaire Edward Conard has done just that.

Verizon is the poster child for corporate irresponsibility.

While foreclosures have devastated the financial security of millions of American families, the CEOs of Wells Fargo and Bank of America have seen their retirement packages balloon.

America needs a tax system that meets our needs to pay for good schools along with safe and dependable infrastructure.

Chuck Collins, author of the newly released “99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It” weighs in on the U.S. News & World Report debate over a potential new tax for top-earners.

We can thank inequality for America’s inadequate — and increasingly unsafe — basic infrastructure.

Chuck Collins’ new book provides revealing and powerful information about inequality in all realms of today’s world, including individual wealth and power, corporate wealth and power, media control, political influence, and other areas.

Chuck Collins visited C-SPAN to talk about his new book, “99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking Our World and What We Can Do About It.”

It’s time for wealthy people like me to become more responsible and pay our fair share of taxes.

The people aren’t powerless in the face of extreme inequality.

For America’s corporations, it pays to get involved in elections. This might be good for business, but it’s bad for politics.

Great economic cataclysms have in the past knocked the super rich off their stride. Our Great Recession’s deep pockets, stunning new income data show, are bucking the historical tide.

If the government is going to give anyone tax breaks, they should give them to people like me before I became an entrepreneur.