income inequality

Got a spare $250 million? If you’re among the 0.1 percent, you probably do.

How rich are the rich? If only you knew.

Feb 5, 2018

Americans spend six billion hours and $10 billion every year preparing and filing their taxes.

Many countries have a simple, fair tax system. Could the US be next?

Sep 27, 2017

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich's new book is called Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

What Germany’s got that America doesn’t

Oct 26, 2015

Thomas Piketty, the French economist behind President Francois Hollande's plan to tax the wealthy has won acclaim in the US for his work on growing income inequality

Business, Economics and Jobs

A French economist becomes a rock star in the US for writing on the growing gap between rich and poor

May 1, 2014