Expanding on Robert Reich’s Pledges for Democrats – there’s a lot to like, but we can improve on it
Reich published What Democrats Must Pledge to America – Ten ways to make America more affordable on 12.5.2025. Here are the bold titles for the […]
Inequality
The Billionairification of America – democracy is dead in the US
The Billionairification of America The Forbes billionaires list in 2019 numbered 607 in the US. By April 2024, the number had grown by 34% to […]
My Children Will Be Better Off Than Me – a series on American values
A cherished part of our national culture has long been the belief that parents can improve their children’s future through better education, hard work, and […]
The Health Insurance Disaster – beyond the end of ACA tax credits
There has been much talk about the 4.8 million people (1.4 million in Florida and 750,000 in New York state) who will lose their Obamacare […]
A Poem for This Day Before the Self-Inflicted Famine
from an acquaintance in my old hometown I follow David Olivencia’s occasional comments about life on his blog Letters from a Postman. This one caught […]
The K-shaped world we live in – the top 20% are doing well, everyone else, not so good….
My research into the enormous explosion of wealth and income inequality in the US over the past fifty years be summarized as the $79 trillion […]
Why taxing the rich & corporations is not the only step we need to take – reversing the top-down class warfare
Many on the left are calling for increasing taxes on the rich and corporations to fund the government while reducing the burden on most Americans. […]
What’s a Billion Dollars Look Like?
These big numbers a way beyond counting on your fingers – try a trillion With the surge in the number of billionaires around the world […]
David Brooks on nurturing human capital in poor people
What might he say about our billionaire class “As a society, we are pretty good at transferring money to the poor, but we’re not very […]
Income Inequality in the US
a fifty year view During the work for my forthcoming book, The Silent Theft: the $79 trillion heist that rewrote the American economic deal, I […]