Too Much http://toomuchonline.org Dedicated to the notion that our world would be considerably more caring, prosperous, and democratic if we narrowed the vast gap that divides our wealthy from everyone else. Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:04:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Our Residential Future: Segregation Forever? http://toomuchonline.org/our-residential-future-segregation-forever/ http://toomuchonline.org/our-residential-future-segregation-forever/#comments Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:40:01 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=5066

Rising inequality, newly released data make plain, has left America’s metro areas — and neighborhoods — considerably less mixed by income. Are the rich about to bid the rest of us good-bye? Read more . . .

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/greed-at-a-glance/feed/ 1 Stat of the Week http://toomuchonline.org/stat-of-the-week/ http://toomuchonline.org/stat-of-the-week/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2013 06:16:46 +0000 admin http://zeitgeistagency.com/library/TooMuch/?p=55 Who’s gaining from the higher productivity of American workers? Not American workers, especially not minimum wage workers. If the federal minimum wage had grown just one quarter as fast as productivity since 1968, economist John Schmitt notes, the minimum today would stand at $12.25. Today's actual minimum: $7.25.

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/stat-of-the-week/feed/ 0 Quote of the Week http://toomuchonline.org/inequality-quotes-weekly-update/ http://toomuchonline.org/inequality-quotes-weekly-update/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2013 06:00:46 +0000 admin http://zeitgeistagency.com/library/TooMuch/quote-of-the-week/ “Working folks shouldn’t have to wait year after year for the minimum wage to go up while CEO pay has never been higher.”
President Barack Obama, State of the Union address, February 12, 2013

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/inequality-quotes-weekly-update/feed/ 0 February 11 Too Much: The Scruffy and the Stuffy http://toomuchonline.org/february-11-too-much-the-scruffy-and-the-stuffy/ http://toomuchonline.org/february-11-too-much-the-scruffy-and-the-stuffy/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:01:29 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=5079 From hiking trails in Oregon to boardrooms in Berlin, critics of our staggeringly unequal corporate order are calling for new limits that link executive compensation to worker paychecks . . . A timeline on our still gaping U.S. income divide.

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/february-11-too-much-the-scruffy-and-the-stuffy/feed/ 0 The Scruffy and the Stuffy Agree: Cap CEO Pay http://toomuchonline.org/the-scruffy-and-stuffy-agree-cap-ceo-pay/ http://toomuchonline.org/the-scruffy-and-stuffy-agree-cap-ceo-pay/#comments Sat, 09 Feb 2013 19:18:26 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=5038 From hiking trails in Oregon to boardrooms in Berlin, critics of our staggeringly unequal corporate order are calling for new limits that link executive compensation to worker paychecks.

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/the-scruffy-and-stuffy-agree-cap-ceo-pay/feed/ 0 February 4 Too Much: A Taxing 100th Anniversary http://toomuchonline.org/february-4-too-much-a-taxing-100th-anniversary/ http://toomuchonline.org/february-4-too-much-a-taxing-100th-anniversary/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:10:26 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=5055 If this California mansion could speak, we would have a fascinating, first-hand history of the roller-coaster first century of federal income taxation . . . Who pays America's state and local taxes? Not the rich.

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/february-4-too-much-a-taxing-100th-anniversary/feed/ 0 If This California Mansion Could Speak http://toomuchonline.org/if-this-california-mansion-could-speak/ http://toomuchonline.org/if-this-california-mansion-could-speak/#comments Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:30:03 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=5003 . . . we would have a fascinating, first-hand history of the roller-coaster first century of federal income taxation.

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/if-this-california-mansion-could-speak/feed/ 0 January 28 Too Much: How to End Extreme Poverty http://toomuchonline.org/january-28-too-much-to-end-extreme-poverty-end-extreme-wealth/ http://toomuchonline.org/january-28-too-much-to-end-extreme-poverty-end-extreme-wealth/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:14:53 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=5030 The world's wealthy gathered in the Alps again last week to discuss how to 'solve' the world's problems. The world's biggest problem, suggests one top global anti-poverty outfit, may be their fortunes . . . The evolution of the pay gap between the top 1 percent and the bottom 90 percent.

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/january-28-too-much-to-end-extreme-poverty-end-extreme-wealth/feed/ 0 To End Extreme Poverty, End Extreme Wealth http://toomuchonline.org/to-end-extreme-poverty-end-extreme-wealth/ http://toomuchonline.org/to-end-extreme-poverty-end-extreme-wealth/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:06:14 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=4987 The world's wealthy gathered in the Alps again last week to discuss how to 'solve' the world's problems. The world's biggest problem, suggests one top global anti-poverty outfit, may be their fortunes.

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