Program on Inequality and the Common Good

How Shkreli got rich in the first place remains not just legal but celebrated.

Unleashing the Transformative Potential of an Equitable Economy

Efforts to repeal CEO-worker pay ratio disclosure continue, but the odds of success are growing longer.

In his new book, Peter Georgescu argues that capitalists have a vested interest in curbing wealth inequality.

Working Americans are hungering for a policy agenda daring enough to take on corporate greed. The Democratic Party’s “Better Deal” isn’t that.

As of mid-July, Labour is 8 percentage points ahead of the Conservatives. Here’s how they did it.

Is the world’s finest floating luxury condo complex the ultimate human experience or is it another sure sign of an economic order gone hopelessly haywire?

Two global groups have joined to create a first-ever yardstick for holding our world’s top politicos accountable, nation by nation, for narrowing our grand divides.

Women owe two-thirds of the nation’s outstanding $1.3 trillion student loan debt.

Three ways to rewire the economy for equality and ecological sustainability.

Just another chapter in the weird stories of the first family.

The Contract Buyers League thought they stamped out predatory contracts for deeds, but thanks to private equity firms, these practices targeting low-income communities of color have resurfaced.

As EU negotiators struggle to reach the finish line on a financial transaction tax agreement, 52 industry professionals issue a joint statement in support.

Fortunately for workers, credible research still points to raising the minimum wage as one reliable solution to the scourge of inequality.

An expert explains how shadowy practitioners of financial trickery help facilitate widespread tax evasion — and undermine democratic government.

Making breakthroughs for consumers is hard, companies have found. But making fortunes for CEOs is easy.

Even over 150 years after slavery, black families still lag centuries behind whites in household wealth.

Deep pockets are pushing to place the blame on firms that can’t keep up with the top 5% of companies, and want to see labor rights slashed accordingly.

Modeled after the Civil Rights Era’s citizenship and freedom schools, the new Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership teaches skills for the Trump Era.

The more wealth the super rich pile up, new research details, the more taxes they maneuver to evade.