Program on Inequality and the Common Good

The landmark 2010 book by British epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett gets a fresh new visual dimension.

Last week, in a New York courtroom, memories of a forgotten tragedy edged back onto the public stage.

The “ample safety net” that Mitt referenced during an interview with CNN’s Soledad O’Brien would be shredded if his policies were to be enacted.

GDP doesn’t measure most of what’s necessary for a good life.

For most people facing poverty today in the United States, the concept of America as the land of opportunity is just a fable.

Americans are in for a long, hard slog.

“We’re Not Broke,” the new documentary about tax-dodging corporations, premiered at Sundance.

Absolutely. The GOP Presidential hopeful from Bain Capital has become a walking, talking object lesson on how plutocracy works – and why we desperately need to end it.

The rich don’t much like paying taxes when tax rates run high. They don’t much like paying taxes when tax rates run low either.

Today’s swaggering rich are increasingly stuffing their dollars into investments that do America’s 99 percent not one whit of good.

Had the federal minimum wage risen at the same pace as the earnings of the highest-paid Americans, it would now be $26.96 an hour.

Retail sales are up in the top 1 percent’s plutonomy, but down in the realonomy where the other 99 percent live.

The Harvard students who occupied their campus are not betraying their class, but forming part of a long tradition of citizens with a conscience.

Whether they manage football pageants or Ford Motor Co., these guys remind us how much needs to change, economically and politically, in 2012 and beyond.

Financial industry insiders are grousing about a big downturn in annual bonuses. They should be thanking the rest of us – bombshell new research shows – for their continuing awesome good tidings.

The other 99 percent fare much worse in the United States than in any other developed country.

Why should I pay no taxes while someone who gets up and goes to work every day does?

It could raise $100 billion and provide a solution to give retired people the raises they need.

How to pay for the crisis while making our nation more equitable, green, and secure.

How to pay for the crisis while making the country more equitable, green, and secure.