Right-wingers are celebrating a deeply depressing new history of those rare moments where distributions of wealth have become significantly more equal.

America’s top airline execs have every incentive to treat average passengers as cattle and chattel. Could United’s now infamous aisle drag upset their gravy train?

A growing number of executives at America’s ‘do-good’ nonprofits are doing much too good — for themselves — at paycheck time.

If you don’t pay me $300 million, the new CEO at CSX is threatening, I’ll let your workers keep their jobs. He means it. At his last CEO stop, Hunter Harrison cashiered 34 percent of another railroad’s workforce.

The White House wants to see local cops cracking down on poor people who break federal laws on immigration. Why not a crackdown on the rich who scoff at tax laws?

For us, another day, another dollar. For them, another day, another fortune. In Rhode Island, progressive lawmakers have an antidote to that avarice.

“We’re tired of CEOs raking in more and more, leaving our communities with less and less.”
Maria Elena Letona, executive director, Neighbor to Neighbor, People’s Action Founding Convention, April 23, 2017

The United States currently hosts 153 billionaires too poor to make it into the annual Forbes list of the nation’s richest 400.