income inequality

‘What’s That About?’: Pope Leo Takes On CEO Pay

Sarah Anderson / Inequality.org Sep 22, 2025 The Catholic leader’s criticism comes as members of Congress call for tax hikes on corporations with the biggest CEO-worker pay gaps. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Editorial Cartoons

Rising Budget Deficits And Our Future

Peter Kuper Dec 16, 2024 Dig deeper

Economic Justice

Presidential Debates Love To Avoid the Topic of Taxing the Rich

Sam Pizzigati / Inequality.org Sep 16, 2024 Some unasked questions might have helped prevent the last half-century’s massive concentration of income and wealth. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Economic Justice

There’s Finally Some Hope on Excessive Executive Pay

Sam Pizzigati / Inequality.org Feb 12, 2024 A Delaware state court ruling has shaken up the the world of compensation for corporate CEOs. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Social Justice

Poor People’s Campaign: Wake the Sleeping Giant of Low-Income Voters

Sarah Anderson / Inequality.org Feb 7, 2024 42 weeks of actions are being planned to mobilize this potentially powerful yet often ignored segment of the electorate. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Book Excerpt

The Scourge of Corporate Financialization

William Lazonick / Cambridge University Press Aug 25, 2023 A new book argues that stock buybacks and other hallmarks of financialization drive income inequity, employment instability, and productive fragility. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )

2020 Democratic presidential candidates at a debate

Centrist Candidates Are Losing the Plot

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Feb 26, 2020 Sticking to the middle of the road will take a toll at the polls, if the Nevada Democratic caucuses were any indication. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Only Sanders Can Challenge Trump’s Predatory Budget Plan

Conor Lynch / Truthdig Feb 13, 2020 The budget proposal offers a terrifying preview of what we can expect from Trump if he wins another four years in office. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Photo of President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland in Jan. 2020

Trump’s Rosy Economic Outlook Is a Big Lie

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Jan 23, 2020 The president thinks he can weather impeachment by exaggerating U.S. successes. But his superlatives don’t reflect reality. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

The cast of Greta Gerwig's "Little Women."

Americans’ Views on Poverty Are as Outdated as ‘Little Women’

Jill Richardson / OtherWords Jan 22, 2020 We've advanced beyond 19th century gender roles. Why can't we get past moralizing about poverty, too? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Uber-Rich’s Preferred Means of Fending Off the Masses

Jim Hightower / OtherWords Jan 22, 2020 If you’ve got more money than you can spend, you can spend your extra wealth on guarding your extra wealth. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Paper currency floating in dark background

How Economic Despair Drives Workers to Their Deaths

By Tom Conway / Independent Media Institute Jan 16, 2020 More and more often, economic despair kills the have-nots. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )