How Contractor CEOs Get Rich Off Taxpayers
June 21, 2023 | Enormous Pentagon budgets are also inflating CEO pay at major military contractors. Here's how to rein in this taxpayer-funded excess.
Articles by Sam Pizzigati
Italy’s Far Right Rode Inequality to Victory — But Has No Answers for It
September 30, 2022 | A let-the-rich-be government has opened the doors to the smiling heirs of Italy’s neofascist factions.
America’s Merchants of Death Then — and Now
August 25, 2021 | More tragedies like Afghanistan will be inevitable until we squeeze the personal profit out of prepping for war.
Channeling FDR in the UK
January 18, 2017 | The UK Labor Party has revived an FDR-era aspiration of imposing a maximum wage on the highest earners, among other radical proposals to stem inequality.
Here’s What the Millionaires at Davos Can Do About Global Inequality
January 19, 2016 | Instead of just talking about inequality, the global business elites gathering in Switzerland can do something about it: Stop dodging their taxes.
Is GDP Over?
October 23, 2015 | Economists from rich countries increasingly agree: Sustainable development and reducing inequality matter more than economic growth.
New Deal’s Unsung Japanese Victory
April 18, 2008 | FDRs campaign against economic royalists lived onand triumphedafter his death. But not where he would have expected.
Deeply Unequal World
December 20, 2006 | A new landmark report by the United Nations University in Helsinki shows the growing global wealth divide.