Sam Pizzigati

  • Pulling the red carpet

    Pulling the red carpet

    With climate change raising water levels, seaside homes on this Massachusetts island now have a nasty habit of “falling into the ocean.”

  • Wasting wealth

    Wasting wealth

    Republicans in Congress, meanwhile, are pushing a budget for next year that would chop IRS funding by $67 billion

  • Strike against inequality

    This past Thursday night, just hours before the expiration of the United Auto Workers contract with Detroit’s Big Three, UAW president Shawn Fain...

  • Corporate power

    Federal prosecutors last month charged the crypto currency CEO phenom Sam Bankman-Fried with committing “one of the biggest financial frauds in...

  • Excessive wealth disorder

    If Dustin Hoffman should ever do a remake of The Graduate, the classic 1967 film that launched his famed cinematic career, what might be the 2020s...

  • Approach to retirement

    Do you have a good pension? Do you have any pension at all? Back in 1975, most Americans who worked for established employers could say that they do...

  • The income gap

    How far off the charts has compensation for America’s top corporate CEOs soared? Let’s use Peter Drucker as our reference point.Management...

  • How rich are the richest?

    How rich have America’s richest become? These days, we like to think we know the answer. After all, we get from investigators at ‘Forbes’...

  • At workers’ expense

    The vision currently driving automation comes from our high-tech corporate giants, mostly in the United States and China, that are now laying out...

  • Civilized societies

    What makes a society civilized? In a word: limits. Civilized societies – to protect and enhance the greater good – set limits on how people...

  • Rising inequality

    Back in April 2017, only a few months after Donald Trump’s inauguration, one of world’s most prestigious medical journals, the London-based...

  • Unequal world

    Remember that old joke they used to tell -- and maybe still do -- in luxury retail circles? The customer, precious product in hand, walks over to a...

  • A broken democracy

    A White House that muses openly about not counting votes. A Senate rushing to cement in place a fiercely conservative Supreme Court. We have plenty...

  • Unequal and unsafe

    Do you know someone who’s died in a car crash? If you live in the United States, the odds say you probably do. We’ve been averaging over 40,000...

  • Living in inequality

    The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released some welcome news late last month: Americans are living a tiny bit longer. In 2018, the...

  • Unequal societies

    Irrelevance can sometimes be liberating, and, at the United Nations in New York, folks have been feeling fairly irrelevant for quite some time...

  • Short lives

    What do the folks at the US Census Bureau do between the census they run every 10 years? All sorts of annual surveys, on everything from housing...

  • The inequality crisis

    Should we care how much wealth our wealthiest are grabbing? The flacks who seek deep-pocket favor have a ready response. Of course not, they tell...

  • Survive without empathy?

    As anyone who keeps a household budget can attest, the unexpected happens all the time. A refrigerator evaporator fan motor fails. Some part on your...