Sam Pizzigati

Sam Pizzigati, an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., currently co-edits Inequality.org, the online world’s prime portal to issues around income and wealth inequality. Pizzigati has written extensively on our economic divides, with articles and op-eds appearing worldwide in outlets ranging from the New York Times and the Guardian to Le Monde Diplomatique.
Pizzigati has authored four books on income and wealth distribution and co-edited another. His most recent book, The Case for a Maximum Wage (Polity), appeared in 2018. His 2012 title, The Rich Don't Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970 (Seven Stories Press), traces the dismantling of America’s original Gilded Age. His 2004 guide to research on maldistributed income and wealth, Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality that Limits Our Lives (Rowman & Littlefield), has won an American Library Association “outstanding title” recognition.
A veteran labor journalist, Pizzigati spent 20 years directing the publishing operations of America’s largest trade union, the 3.1 million-member National Education Association.