Income Inequality

The top 1 percent of people in the world are getting richer and will control more than half of all wealth by 2016, according to a report released by Oxfam Monday.Â (iStock Photo)

Economy

Top 1 percent set to control more than half of world’s wealth next year

Joseph Lawler -

January 19, 2015 2:05 pm

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., remains the wealthiest member of Congress. In 2013, his average net worth was $448.4 million. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Economy

A lawmaker is worth 18 times an average American household

Kelly Cohen -

January 15, 2015 5:41 pm

French economist Thomas Piketty poses near the Bosphorus with his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century's Turkish translation in Istanbul, Turkey on November 20, 2014. (Photo by Metin Pala/Anadolu Agency/Getty images)

Beltway Confidential

Piketty’s data don’t match the facts

Jason Russell -

January 13, 2015 6:37 pm

Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., speaks during a news conference March 20, 2014 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty images)

Economy

Top House Democrat lays out $1.2 trillion progressive tax plan

Joseph Lawler -

January 12, 2015 8:55 pm

Pope Francis waves from the Popemobile on his way to attend the Via Crucis on Copacabana Beach during World Youth Day celebrations on July 26, 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty images)

Columnists

The pontiff, ‘climate change’ and capitalism

Larry Elder -

January 8, 2015 10:04 pm

Washington Secrets

Pew: The poor like Democrats, but don’t vote for them

Paul Bedard -

January 8, 2015 4:11 pm

Columnists

Family fragmentation: Can anything be done?

Michael Barone -

January 5, 2015 10:00 am

Economy

Minimum wage fights turns to states, cities

Sean Higgins -

December 27, 2014 7:00 pm

Poverty, economic inequality, government infrastructure and immigration become the topics of policy debates in 2014. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Reviewing 2014’s domestic policy debates

Jason Russell -

December 27, 2014 10:00 am

Daron Acemoglu, of MIT, and James Robinson, of Harvard, criticized Piketty's book, writing that Piketty's arguments give a

Beltway Confidential

Study: Piketty mischaracterizes inequality, economic laws

Jason Russell -

December 22, 2014 10:25 pm

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Tag: Income Inequality

Top 1 percent set to control more than half of world’s wealth next year

A lawmaker is worth 18 times an average American household

Piketty’s data don’t match the facts

Top House Democrat lays out $1.2 trillion progressive tax plan

The pontiff, ‘climate change’ and capitalism

Pew: The poor like Democrats, but don’t vote for them

Family fragmentation: Can anything be done?

Minimum wage fights turns to states, cities

Reviewing 2014’s domestic policy debates

Study: Piketty mischaracterizes inequality, economic laws

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