http://extremeinequality.org Reaching out to different constituencies, generating educational materials, and promoting public policies to slim grand accumulations of private wealth. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:56:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A host of CEOs have discovered a quick fix that almost guarantees good times for the executive set. They kill jobs. By Sam Pizzigati If you started last year on the payroll at Verizon or Alcoa or Boeing or IBM, you may have found yourself off the payroll by year’s end. ... http://extremeinequality.org/?p=241 'Soak the rich,' after years in the shadows, has suddenly become a policy option fit for discussion in 'respectable' media circles. By Sam Pizzigati At long last, we may be witnessing a fundamental paradigm shift in how we, as a society, talk about taxing the rich. Until this summer, no ... http://extremeinequality.org/?p=240 The takeaway from the latest top gun flame-out at Hewlett-Packard: Chief executive “success,” in America today, essentially demands no more than greed and a developmentally arrested ego. By Sam Pizzigati The tall tales we’ve inherited from ages long gone we call myths. The tall tales that spook our contemporary everyday life ... http://extremeinequality.org/?p=239 A new study says super-rich candidates who personally bankroll their own campaigns almost always lose. But that, unfortunately, doesn't make the rest of us winners. By Sam Pizzigati The ticker on billionaire Meg Whitman’s personal outlays for her California gubernatorial campaign has now hit $91 million. But Whitman, this election ... http://extremeinequality.org/?p=238 New data — for 2008 — have revealed a shrinking gap between the rich and the rest of us. But the nation's top high-income tracker isn't celebrating. And neither should we. By Sam Pizzigati Will the Great Recession, once the dust settles, leave the United States less unequal? A reasonable question. ... http://extremeinequality.org/?p=237 Make room for a new right-wing assault on scientific research. In the cross-hairs this time: the massive epidemiological evidence on inequality's horrific toll on our health and overall well-being. By Sam Pizzigati Just over three decades ago, in 1979, an obscure research paper began a scientific revolution — on how we ... http://extremeinequality.org/?p=236 Over half of America has already felt the Great Recession, personally and profoundly. Yet life at our economy's summit remains ever so sweet. That's a bitter reality we really ought to start confronting. By Sam Pizzigati The ranks of the hurting — in Great Recession America — may be far broader ... http://extremeinequality.org/?p=235 Just in: new data on our staggering income gap. Just emerging: a better understanding why such gaps make economic calamities inevitable. By Sam Pizzigati Years ago, in the mid 20th century, no one in the United States spent much time talking about rising income inequality, for the simple ... http://extremeinequality.org/?p=234 Progressives in the U.S. Senate have introduced a potent package of estate tax reforms that would, if enacted, start seriously trimming America's most super-sized hoards of private wealth. By Sam Pizzigati Back a hundred summers ago in 1910, former President Theodore Roosevelt — a Republican — called for “a ... http://extremeinequality.org/?p=233 Our economy would become the world’s most innovative, our elites have assured us over the past 30 years, if we gave our rich enough incentives to innovate. We kept to our end of the bargain. So where’s the innovation? By Sam Pizzigati The pollsters at Gallup have never asked Americans to name ... http://extremeinequality.org/?p=232