PPI - Radically Pragmatic
  • Donate
Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
    • About Us
    • Locations
    • Careers
  • People
  • Projects
  • Our Work
  • Events
  • Donate

Our Work

Washington Examiner: Should we care less about inequality?

  • April 7, 2016
  • The Progressive Policy Institute

Jason Russell quotes PPI President Will Marshall on public opinion towards economic inequality and how it can change over time.

“If everybody else is rising then really, in this country, there isn’t a strong appetite for punishing wealth creators,” Will Marshall, president of the liberal Progressive Policy Institute, said Wednesday at an inequality discussion hosted by Economics21 at the Manhattan Institute (my last employer). “Nobody cared about inequality in the late ’90s because all groups were rising.”

Read the full article at the Washington Examiner.

Related Work

Op-Ed  |  March 13, 2026

Marshall for The Hill: Both Trump and Progressives Are Foggy on Iran

  • Will Marshall
Op-Ed  |  February 13, 2026

Marshall for The Hill: The Midterms Aren’t Enough — Democrats Must Campaign for the White House

  • Will Marshall
Op-Ed  |  February 11, 2026

Ainsley for Fabian Society: The Democrats’ recent success across the Atlantic show that a dogged focus on affordability can defeat the right

  • Claire Ainsley
In the News  |  February 4, 2026

Marshall in Politico: ‘Comeback Kid’ no more: Dems aren’t protecting the Clintons from Epstein scrutiny

  • Will Marshall
In the News  |  February 2, 2026

Kahlenberg in The Chronicle for Higher Education: Does American Studies Have a Credibility Problem?

  • Richard D. Kahlenberg
Op-Ed  |  January 30, 2026

Manno for Washington Monthly: The Shrinking Space Between Home and Work

  • Bruno Manno
  • Never miss an update:

  • Subscribe to our newsletter
PPI Logo
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Donate
  • Careers
  • © 2026 Progressive Policy Institute. All Rights Reserved.
  • |
  • Privacy Policy
  • |
  • Privacy Settings