In deeply unequal societies, figuring out who to believe will always be a challenge.

The president is dismissing dire warnings of an imminent USPS collapse, falsely claiming that postal financial woes are self-inflicted.

Malaysian economist Martin Khor was one of the world’s leading advocates of policies to reduce economic disparities within and between nations.

The wealthy argue safety net programs create an incentive for folks to stop working. They’re wrong, but especially so during pandemics like the coronavirus.

In a deeply unequal America, our democracy clearly has a problem legislating emergency relief without further enriching the already rich.

The owners of sports teams make billions off low-wage stadium workers. With games suspended, those workers deserve help.

“I think this moment global pandemic is showing us very clearly that all human life is interrelated, which means that none of us is safe until all of us are safe.”

The fact that so many Americans are facing dire circumstances now is a direct result of the exploitation economy and we should take this opportunity to change it.

There are plenty of places you can direct your energies to support people taking an economic hit during the pandemic.

Online platforms like Zoom and Skype have become basic, public necessities as our lives are upended by the coronavirus. Should they be nationalized?

Medical care is disproportionately available to the rich. To fix this, we need a massive humanitarian response to the coronavirus by the federal government.

Why debate the coronavirus bill currently before Congress? When Congress rushed through a massive stimulus plan in 2008, it ended up bailing out big businesses but not regular people.

Meanwhile, Republicans have proposed pathetically weak executive pay restrictions for companies relying on taxpayer support.

Legislators proposing major stimulus packages must ensure bailout dollars are funneled to workers, not executives or shareholders.

The government should provide direct wage subsidies to airline workers while restricting CEO pay to no more than 50 times median wages.

As cities and states grapple with the spread of coronavirus, activists remind government why water is a human right and not a commodity.

This time around, let’s use the power of the public purse to reduce inequality.

Polling questions that isolate ‘inequality’ do no justice to the social ills that ail us.

An illustrated look at a system allowing billionaire wealth to balloon, all at the expense of everything else we care about.

‘If I have to move I’m going to lose my friends, my house, my doctor, my neighborhood. Everything.’