New Economic Policy Institute research exposes just how top-heavy many of the places Americans call home have become.

Would this help reduce income inequality were it come to pass?

As city council attempts to overturn a minimum wage initiative, district residents demand elected officials respect their vote.

America’s elected leaders haven’t ignored inequality since 2000. They’ve made it spectacularly worse.

We’ve reached the point where a handful of extraordinarily wealthy clans essentially have the power to suffocate our democracy.

The toy store’s former employees are using public shaming and pension plans to demand severance and fight Wall Street greed.

An iconic basketball superstar reminds us that raising taxes on the rich will not end civilization as we know it.

Misinformation abounds as the restaurant industry pours its resources into defeating Initiative 77.

By leveraging the power of the public purse against corporations that pay their top execs outrageously more than their workers, we could help jump-start a democratic “New Economy.”

From Hong Kong to Los Angeles, people of ordinary means are squeezing into expensive housing and subsidizing country clubs for the golfing super rich.

I Have A Future is a local organization mobilizing youth organizers in Massachusetts to advocate for themselves in the fight to raise the state’s minimum wage.

The lasting impact of slavery, red-lining, and mass incarceration, and how they contribute to today’s massive racial wealth gap.

Payday lenders extort poor and rural Americans. One solution? Your friendly neighborhood post office.

The Minnesota lawmaker has been a champion of efforts to defend the disclosure reform from Republican attack.

His advisers, as well as Israel and Saudi Arabia, will be pushing for one—which is why we have to act now to stop it.

Down Home North Carolina is organizing a multiracial movement to restore power to the state’s working people.

Activists demand accountability from Power Design, a subcontractor enabling the “race to the bottom” at construction sites around Washington, D.C.

Taxing high-end real estate transfers can help keep city living affordable for everyone.

An annual protest tradition continues as activists demand accountability from the scandal-ridden bank.

The state’s teachers go on strike, calling for a ban on tax cuts until education funding reaches national average.