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January 6, 2014 Too Much: Year One of the Pay Ratio Era?

In the year ahead, nurses and college students just might jump-start the struggle against chronic — and growing — income inequality.

December 16 Too Much: America’s Ten Greediest of 2013

Butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers. You won’t find any of them on our annual list of America’s most avaricious. You will find wheelers and dealers and a candy store heiress.

December 9 Too Much: : A Sure Way to Kill a Good Time

What makes a society a fun place to be? Really nice weather and exciting nightlife options certainly help. So does avoiding a starkly skewed distribution of income and wealth.

December 2 Too Much: From Rome, Five Essential Insights on Inequality

In plain yet powerful language, Pope Francis is challenging the givens of our deeply unequal world — and helping inspire resistance to it.

November 25 Too Much: Platinum-Plated Pensions

America’s top corporate CEOs feel entitled to pensions that pay out $86,000 — and more — monthly. To protect their entitlement, they’re attacking ours: Social Security.

November 18 Too Much: A bid to put a ceiling on CEO pay

Young activists in Switzerland have plutocrats hyperventilating — and spending a fortune to beat back a ballot initiative that would establish a legal limit on the pay gap between top execs and their workers.

November 11 Too Much: Counting Dollars the Rich Want Uncounted

Americans are gaining, ever so slowly, a more accurate picture of just how wide the gap has stretched between the nation’s most fabulously privileged and everyone else.

November 4 Too Much: Are Heartless People Born That Way?

People who cut food stamps — and gut child labor laws — most all had empathy when they came into the world. So what squeezed the empathy out? Analysts are pointing to inequality.

October 28 Too Much: Busting Past $100 Million

America’s top execs don’t have the time to party. They’re too busy waging a corporate holy war against what may be the most promising check yet on executive pay excess.

October 21 Too Much: The Price-Tag on Ending Extreme Poverty

A tiny tax on global personal wealth over $1 million could ensure that no child anywhere on the planet has to live in extreme poverty.