Sam Pizzigati

A veteran labor journalist, Sam Pizzigati has written widely on economic inequality for both popular and scholarly readers. His op-eds and articles on income and wealth have appeared in a host of major dailies, from the New York Times to USA Today, and a broad variety of magazines and journals in the United States and abroad.

Pizzigati's latest book, The Case for a Maximum Wage (2018), explores why we need a cap on excessive incomes and how we can get one. His 2012 book, The Rich Don't Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970, traces the remarkable transformation that leveled down America's rich over the first half of the 20th century.

Pizzigati's 2004 book, Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality that Limits Our Lives, won a coveted "outstanding title" of the year Choice rating from the American Library Association.

Pizzigati has edited the national publications of three U.S. trade unions and ran the publishing operations of America's largest union, the National Education Association, for twenty years. He now serves as an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., where he co-edits Inequality.org.