TED Decides Not to Post Income Inequality Talk

Staff / Truthdig May 17, 2012 TED, the sleek pioneering giant of the online video salon, boasts the tagline: “Ideas worth spreading.” But the group declined to post a talk by Seattle-based venture capitalist and Amazon.com investor Nick Hanauer, who said the middle class, not wealthy financiers like himself, were the nation’s real “job creators.” Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Where President Romney Would Take Us

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Mar 2, 2012 The Republicans want to make the presidential race about values, which they define as returning the nation to Victorian morality, laissez faire economics and a heavy dose of conservative Christian theology. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Ralph Nader: Raise the Minimum Wage

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Feb 27, 2012 Ralph Nader believes that the call to raise the minimum wage has the potential to divide the Republican Party, which has not been split on any major issue in Congress since Obama took office.The Occupy movement may be able to forge a powerful alliance with millions of working men and women around a national call to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Income Inequality Goes to School

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Feb 24, 2012 Countering the efforts of educational reformers -- including President Obama and his Race to the Top crew -- to blame teachers for student failures, researchers are finding that the growing gap between the affluent and the poor is the real villain.The harm done by an economic system increasingly tilted toward the rich is much more than a pocketbook issue. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Bill Moyers Coming Back to a TV Near You

Staff / Truthdig Jan 12, 2012 Good thing he wasn't gone for long. Veteran broadcast journalist and perennial class act Bill Moyers is making his TV comeback this weekend with a new show, "Moyers & Company," after almost two years off the air. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Census Shows Nearly Half of Americans Are Struggling Financially

Staff / Truthdig Dec 15, 2011 The general gist of findings from the 2010 census may not be shocking, but the actual numbers detailing the growing problem of the shrinking middle class in America are: Nearly half of all Americans qualify for the poor or low-income categories, making income inequality an issue that now splits the nation down the middle. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Balance

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Occupy 2012

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Nov 30, 2011 In its two months of existence, Occupy L.A. showed a resiliency and purpose that could make some of its participants leaders in a great confrontation over economic injustice in the 2012 election. The election could be the next step for the Occupy movement. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Introducing the ‘Near Poor’

Staff / Truthdig Nov 20, 2011 The Census Bureau published a new measure of poverty this month to more carefully count those Americans who are barely getting by. The new income category -- “near poor” -- is up for grabs to those in the OWS movement, who could use it to better tell their alternative story of broad American hardship. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

How Economic Inequality Harms Societies

Staff / Truthdig Oct 31, 2011 Richard Wilkinson and partner Kate Pickett ran the data and came to the conclusion that the national income of a country is insignificant to its social well-being when compared with income inequality. Wilkinson says, "If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

From Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park: Lessons in Inequality

Staff / Truthdig Oct 17, 2011 Nicholas Kristof writes in The New York Times that, although there are parallels between the revolutionary protests in Egypt and the occupation of Wall Street, Americans actually experience worse income inequality than Egyptians. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Top 1 Percent

Staff / Truthdig Aug 5, 2011 Al-Jazeera's slick video news magazine "Fault Lines" investigates the incredible income disparity in the United States that now sees 40 percent of the nation's wealth in the hands of the top 1 percent. Spoiler alert: The rich get richer, and it's not very pleasant. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )