Billionaires: Decline of the West, Rise of the Rest
Gone are the days when the U.S. accounted for over 40 percent of the world’s billionaires, with Western Europe and Japan making up most of the rest.
Fibs and Falsehoods: Darden Corporation Claims ‘No One Makes $2.13 An Hour’
A recent IPS op-ed on tipped wages has provoked an unfounded attack by the world’s largest full service restaurant chain.
A Golden Rule that Might Chip Away at Inequality
By making it mandatory for corporations to disclose the gap between what they pay their chief executives and most typical workers, the government will empower investors and consumers to compare individual corporations by their level of CEO greed.
Homeless Need Not Enter Columbia, S.C.
Rather than addressing the reasons for the increase in homelessness, the city of Columbia has given its homeless a choice: either vacate to a designated emergency shelter, or go to prison.
Danger Ahead: Our Disappearing Pensions
The vaunted 401(k) revolution has left few Americans with a nest egg.
Declaration of the G20 Counter-Summit
Five years after the financial meltdown, the G20 continues promoting failed neoliberal policies that are condemning the world to a vicious cycle of crisis and environmental collapse.
The Political Calculations behind Growing Inequality
A gusher of campaign cash is driving our politicians to comfort the already comfortable.
NEW REPORT: Executive Excess 2013, “Bailed Out, Booted, and Busted”
IPS releases 20-year review showing that nearly 40 percent of America’s top-paid CEOs are not so great at their jobs.
Executive Excess 2013: Bailed Out, Booted, and Busted
Nearly 40 percent of the CEOs on the highest-paid lists from the past 20 years were eventually “bailed out, booted, or busted.”
20 Years of Executive Excess
Since 1994, Executive Excess has reported annually on excessive CEO compensation.
The Bezillionaire Times
Amazon’s take-no-prisoners business model made founder Jeff Bezos staggeringly rich while stranding thousands of warehouse workers on the borderline of poverty.
Blowing the Whistle on Philanthropy
A scion of one of America’s top fortunes has just exposed our “charitable-industrial complex.”
What’s Driving America’s Flagging Vital Signs?
Inequality is behind the nation’s dismal life expectancy rates.
Views Roundup with IPS – Immigration Reform, Trayvon Martin, Inequality, Edward Snowden, more
A weekly roundup of what IPS personalities are talking about.
Predistribute the Wealth
The market has stopped working for working people.