Sam Pizzigati

Editor, Too Much

Labor journalist Sam Pizzigati has been editing Too Much, America's only newsletter devoted to challenging excessive income and wealth, ever since the publication first appeared in 1995. Currently an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., Pizzigati has written widely on economic inequality issues, with op-eds and articles appearing in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and a host of other newspapers and periodicals.

Over the course of his labor movement career, Pizzigati has edited publications for four national unions and co-edited the primary text on trade union journalism, The New Labor Press (Cornell University ILR Press). He spent 20 years directing the publishing operations of America's largest union, the 3.2 million-member National Education Association.

Pizzigati's latest book, Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality that Limits Our Lives (Apex Press, 2004), examines just how concentrated wealth is poisoning every aspect of our contemporary lives, from our economy and politics to our health and our happiness.

In Greed and Good, Pizzigati also explores the options for creating a less unequal America and offers a political guide for moving forward incrementally on the boldest option of all, a “maximum wage,” a national ceiling on individual income that would rise if and only if the minimum wage rose first.

Pizzigati, 59, lives in Maryland. He has served on the boards of directors of Progressive Maryland, the state's most respected voice for working families, and United for a Fair Economy, the Boston-based national economic justice advocacy group.

You can reach Sam Pizzigati at editor@toomuchonline.org.