Income Inequality

If a corporate board of directors could hire a person for $45,000 who could do what a CEO could do, why would they pay CEOs millions? (Photo: Thinkstock)

Columnists

Income inequality and the politics of hate and envy

January 27, 2014 5:00 am

President Obama's policies continue to produce results that are the opposite of what he promises, yet he brazenly cites the abysmal state of his economy to announce -- indignantly -- that he will double down on his failures. (AP Photo)

Columnists

Obama needs to do less finger-wagging and more apologizing

David Limbaugh -

January 27, 2014 5:00 am

Members of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors and regional Fed bank presidents will gather in Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday for the last monetary policy meeting headed by Chairman Ben Bernanke. (AP Photo)

Economy

The week ahead in economics: Ben Bernanke’s goodbye, Bitcoin and GDP

Joseph Lawler -

January 27, 2014 5:00 am

Assemblyman Carl Heastie, D-Bronx, a sponsor to raise the state's minimum wage, works in the Assembly Chamber at the state Capitol on Jan. 22 in Albany, N.Y. Minimum wage proposals are getting a maximum push from Democrats in statehouses around the nation this year. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Democrats pushing minimum-wage bills in at least 30 states

Washington Examiner -

January 27, 2014 5:00 am

A new study from Harvard University on the ability of low-income children to achieve social mobility found that the largest hindrance to moving up the income ladder is being raised by a single parent. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

Harvard study: Single parents a hindrance to social mobility

Ashe Schow -

January 26, 2014 5:00 am

President Barack Obama speaks during an reception for the U.S. Conference of Mayors in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Economy

White House: Obama to offer ‘concrete’ proposals on inequality

Meghashyam Mali -

January 26, 2014 5:00 am

Business

Obama focus on ‘opportunity,’ less on ‘inequality’

Jim Kuhnhenn -

January 24, 2014 9:49 pm

The proportion of the top 0.1 percent of earners working in finance grew dramatically between 1979 and 2005. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Economy

How the top 0.1 percent inflates the 1 percent

Joseph Lawler -

January 24, 2014 5:00 am

Business

Study: Climbing income ladder hasn’t grown harder

Paul Wiseman -

January 23, 2014 6:33 pm

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks during a session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Economy

Davos finds inequality its business as political backlash seen

Bloomberg News -

January 23, 2014 5:00 am

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