Archive for the ‘Income distribution’ Category

August 27th, 2009

The UK’s chief financial regulator is for it. Sarkozy is for it. Time for a coordinated move?

June 19th, 2009

$1.9 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy pass easily; $1.6 trillion for health care leads to panic. Discuss.

February 17th, 2008

Rothkos aren’t the bargain they were a year ago.

May 17th, 2007

Yes, it has guest-workers. But it’s better than the status quo.

May 10th, 2007

Giuliani stiffs a farm family: they offerered their place for a campaign stop and invited all their friends, but their farm isn’t worth $1 million and he wanted to talk about repealing the “death tax.”

February 24th, 2007

About 5% of the nation’s population lives in “extreme or severe” poverty, according to official statistics.

August 28th, 2006

Doug Besharov and Nick Eberstadt claim that the poverty rate grossly understates our progress in reducing the extent of severe and persistent material deprivation.

July 31st, 2006

$70 billion a year is being stolen from the Treasury.
If the Bush Administration minds, it isn’t letting on.

July 28th, 2006

Kevin Drum:
Clearly, the Republican Party is the party of common sense. After all, if you give a few hundred dollars a month to the poorest of the working poor, it’s only fair that you also give several million dollars to the richest of the idle rich.

July 28th, 2006

“Class warfare is a fact of life, and the super-rich are winning in a rout.”
– Ezra Klein