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2013 End Report: The Super Rich Are Sucking Wealth From the Rest of Us
The wealthiest people in the U.S. and around the world have used the stock market and the deregulated financial system to lay claim to the resources that should belong to all of us.
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466 Hours of Worker Overtime Equals One Hour of CEO Pay
CEOs earn 874 times more per hour than a sales associate.
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WATCH: Comedian Russell Brand's Brilliant Tirade Against a Broken Political System
In an interview with the BBC, Brand shows he's a revolutionary thinker and gives props to OCCUPY.
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Inequality — Why Are the Rich Getting Richer?
Many of the biggest social and economic problems that we're facing today are consequences of the same root problem: the way that money is created.
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This 4th of July, Remembering Theodore Dreiser and What "Radically American" Means
Unlike his fiction, Dreiser’s political prose is less well known. But today's conditions of corruption and inequality again, as in his time, demand us to be “radically American”: a term that Dreiser used to describe himself.
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Inequality Alert: The Sweden Riots and What They Mean
The riots shaking Stockholm stem from many sources — including that this country has seen the biggest surge in inequality of any OECD nation in the past 15 years.
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Revealed: The World's Richest 8% Earn Half of All Planetary Income
Global inequality is much greater than inequality within any individual country.
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Stiglitz: Student Debt and the Crushing of the American Dream
Like the housing crisis that preceded it, the student debt crisis is intimately connected to America’s soaring inequality.
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Video: Wealth Inequality in America
There's a big difference between our perception of wealth inequality in America, and how the real numbers add up.
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Numbers To Die For: What the Ultra Rich Are Getting Away With
Here are ten facts that reveal the deadening effects of inequality in our country and confirm that tax avoidance, rather than a lack of middle-class initiative, is the cause.
