Sam Pizzigati

Sam Pizzigati writes on inequality for the Institute for Policy Studies. His latest book: The Case for a Maximum Wage (Polity). Among his other books on maldistributed income and wealth: The Rich Don’t Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970  (Seven Stories Press). 

For America’s Wealthy, a Sweet Start to Our 21st Century

The Gilded Age Then, the Gilded Age Now

Can Brazil Convince the World to Tax Billionaire Wealth?

Do High Taxes on the Rich Make Any Sense?

The Next Billionaire Thing: Hunting Humans?

New Hope for a Check on CEO Compensation

The Penalty for Exposing How Our Plutocracy Operates? Five Years Behind Bars

Must We Limit the Wealthy’s Wealth?

What’s Driving Our Epidemic of Distrust?

The Rich Who Own the Home Next Door

In Our Deeply Unequal World, the Garbage Rises Ever Higher

Another Hardwood Shakedown: It’s Your Money or Your Team!

Sick of Outrageously Excessive CEO Compensation?

Our Rich: Fooling Themselves and Fouling Our Planet

Our Richest Can Move to Avoid Taxes, But Can They Hide?

The Global Significance of the UAW’s Victory

Is a ‘Mayday!’ Now Looming for Our Billionaire Class?

A New Portrait of the World’s Wealth — and Wealthiest

Amid Discouraging Inequality Data, Some Signs of Hope

Share the Wealth vs. Waste the Wealth

Private Yachts as Long as Football Fields

How About a General Strike Against Dollar General?

A Telling Tale of Two Press Lords

America’s Auto Workers: On Strike Against Inequality. Again.

The Tie That Truly Binds Grand Fortune and Great Talent

Which Nation Has Taxed the Rich the Most?

New Stats, Same Story: Our Rich are Raking

The Tesla Take on Sharing the Wealth

Have Our Corporate Chieftains Become Expendable?

Can We Measure Inequality Without Tallying the Wealth of Our Wealthy?

A Good Year’s Pay for a Good Day’s Work?

Creating a More Equal America

The End of the Line for the Raunchy Billionaire Who Set the Stage for Donald Trump

In This Washington, the Fantastically Rich Are Finally Frowning

Could We Actually End the CEO Defense Contractor Gravy Train?

Garbage In, Garbage CEO Windfalls Out

The Two Decades That Created Our World’s First Mass Middle Class

To Protect Our Children, Let’s Tax Our Rich

Can Auto Industry Execs Give Us a Climate-Safe Planet?

We Must Not Dance to the Billionaires’ Beat

Seriously Auditing the Rich Makes Sense. Seriously Taxing the Rich Can Save Us.

Baseball’s Owners Have Ball Games Shorter…and Maybe Fan Lives, Too

The Lesson We Need to Teach Our Nation’s Rich

Will the States Finally Tax the Rich?

In Deeply Unequal Societies, the Thieving Always Thrive

The Clearest Case Yet for Taxing Billionaires

A Down Year for Our Deepest Pockets?

Oxfam Wants to More than Double the Tax Rate on Our Richest

Blame the Wealthy Not the Weather: Inside Southwest’s Horrible Holidays

Can We Talk Sensibly about Inequality and Ignore the Rich?