To fully address profit-driven punishment, the Biden administration will need to take aim at every tendril of the private prison industry — including immigration detention centers.

Amid a rising billionaire tide, could a blip help change our national economic conversation?

Concentrating wealth hasn’t just disrupted our major cities. It’s now changing our towns and countryside. Author Justin Farrell shows us how.

Donald Trump may have made his exit, but the CEOs his years smiled upon haven’t gone anywhere.

Congress let mandatory paid leave requirements expire at the end of 2020, sparking calls for universal leave benefits to protect workers and their customers from the pandemic.

Our task ahead: preventing a deeply unequal world from recreating pre-pandemic business as usual.

The Progressive Caucus has unveiled a legislative agenda designed to meet the scale of the pandemic catastrophe and reduce our vulnerability to future crises.

Buried in the COVID relief deal is a provision that will require taxpayers to subsidize lavish business meals for corporate executives.

In 2020, foreign investors filed at least 51 known lawsuits demanding huge sums from governments struggling to fight a historic pandemic.

The super rich owe their super fortunes to factors that have little to do with ‘genius.’

Real change only happens, the New Deal era suggests, when a president’s ear is hearing the shouts of mass movements.

Shared ownership is crucial for building the power of communities that have long had their wealth extracted by others.

The nation’s woefully inadequate response to the pandemic is jeopardizing millions of retirement futures.

The Trump 2017 tax act penalizes states that tax income responsibly.

This essential workforce is hustling to help holiday shoppers while also organizing hazard pay and other COVID-19 protections.

What could be better than a drug that can stop COVID? A society that doesn’t let someone make billions off a drug millions can’t access.

Lifting these financial burdens would help individual debt holders meet daily needs, reduce the racial wealth gap, and give a boost to the national economy.

The problem runs even deeper than Donor Class donations.

People did not turn out in record numbers in the midst of a pandemic to vote for a return to normal. They want policy change based on a moral agenda.

On November 3, voters in many states and cities approved a variety of inequality-related proposals, from taxing the wealthy to increasing the minimum wage and tenant protections.