Program on Inequality and the Common Good

20% of Americans have zero or negative net worth—and that number is growing.

The administration wants massive cuts to public services, but his base depends on an engaged federal government, IPS economic inequality expert Chuck Collins tells Rising Up with Sonali.

A new report helps quantify the abusive patterns experienced by survivors of human trafficking by following the stories of over 100 domestic workers.

A new study shows that undocumented immigrants pay $11.7 billion in state and local taxes alone.

The president’s budget won’t balance federal spending one bit, but it’ll move a lot of money up to the rich.

The often praised and all-too-powerful generation is taken to task in this searing critique of the contributions Baby Boomers have made.

Taxpayers are subsidizing the private universities that service America’s rich.

A new study shows the legacy of racism far outweighs individual financial decisions in driving the growing gap between black and white families.

The most pro-Wall Street White House we’ve ever seen is betting you’ve forgotten the 2008 crash.

The White House wants crackdowns on poor people who break federal laws on immigration. Why not a crackdown on the rich who scoff at tax laws?

The only solution is to bring your wealth home and invest in community resilience to ensure the survival of all.

They say the fight for a more equitable society isn’t worth the trouble.

Love Thomas Piketty, but don’t have the time for his brick of a book? Here’s the perfect pocket-sized reader to get you up to speed on what all the inequality hype is about.

Trump’s executive order rolling back financial regulations could “seed the next economic meltdown,” IPS economic inequality expert Chuck Collins told KCRW.

Fortune 500 chiefs make twice as much in a month as U.S. workers make in a decade. But any move to require corporations to document that disparity would be shameful, a new Trump appointee argues.

The new project Resist365 is taking aim at the inequality-expanding agenda of the new Trump administration — and inspiring a new generation of progressive leadership.

The racial wealth divide today has not decreased since James Baldwin died in 1987.

Trump says he’ll spike bad trade deals, but he’s still letting the big corporations that write them make the rules.

The deeply unequal America of 2006 had a greater proportion of low-wealth households than the America of earlier postwar decades — that contrast really mattered.

When we cheer for the growth in stock prices, what we’re really cheering for is the further swelling of the bank accounts of the already wealthy.