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The Working Group on Extreme Inequality is coordinated by the Institute for Policy Studies. We can be reached at the New England Office of the Institute for Policy Studies, 30 Germania, Building L, Boston, MA. 02130. 617-541-0500 x311. Coordinator Chuck Collins can be reached at chuck@ips-dc.org.
A host of CEOs have discovered a quick fix that almost guarantees good times for the executive set. They kill jobs.
‘Soak the rich,’ after years in the shadows, has suddenly become a policy option fit for discussion in ‘respectable’ media circles.
‘Soak the rich,’ after years in the shadows, has suddenly become a policy option fit for discussion in ‘respectable’ media circles.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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