Making the pie higher
According to a new Congressional Budget Office report, the “increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to 2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans”. Please note that’s just the increase in income for the top 1/100 vs. the total income of the [...]

Wildfires less wild for some

Rain, according to Jesus, “falleth on the just and the unjust.” (Matthew 5:45) Thanks to modern technology and improved customer service, fire is no longer so democratically distributed.
In this morning’s LA Times, Kimi Yoshino reports on the “‘concierge-level’ fire protection” available to the wealthy. The insurance company AIG, for [...]