Here’s a stat for International Workers’ Day that’s giving us hope.

A tiny uptick in wages won’t do much to help Americans squeezed by debt and facing rising prices for medicine, child care, housing, and other essentials.

“People shouldn’t have to crowdfund for their health care. We wanted PhRMA to have to face firsthand the toll their greed takes on Americans across our country.”

If you like looking good, you ought to fear what rising levels of inequality are doing to America’s apparel future.

A new movement is building towards an economy centered on global solidarity, rather than an international race to the bottom.

The richest among us are preaching the ‘opportunity’ gospel. Don’t fall for it.

Truly effective climate policy will require ‘a cultural shift that is bigger than legislation.’

Deep pockets have displaced modest-income people from plenty of prime urban terra firma. Could our offshore be next?

Striking workers won backing from every corner of their community, from local rabbis preparing for Passover to placard-carrying toddlers.

Gross inequalities were created by public policies, and can by fixed by them as well.

Activists, academics, and elected officials gathered in Washington to explain why and how we should raise taxes on the wealthy.

Taxes on the wealthy should be linked not just to the top of the income ladder, but also to the bottom.

People of modest means face endless political gridlock when they want systems — like the drug industry — reformed. People of privilege face no such frustration.

A coalition of activists is challenging the financial industry’s ties to the gun industry, its lobbyists, and the lawmakers that support it most.

Tax-the-rich proposals just keep coming. The latest, a capital gains tax, would hit households earning over $10 million annually the hardest.

At a recent Senate hearing, some officials attempted to divert attention from the real cause of post office financial losses by blaming worker rights.

If top U.S. corporations can afford to spend over $5 trillion buying back their own shares of stock, the United States can afford a Green New Deal.

Hedge fund heads buy up mansions and NFL teams, all on the tab of autoworkers.

Outfielder Mike Trout has just signed the richest contract in pro sports history, and no one may be happier than America’s staggeringly overpaid CEOs.

The scary arithmetic of grand fortune is shrinking our household nest-eggs.