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

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.

Houston, Texas has been segregating at a rapid pace. Unfortunately, the twin ills of rising inequality and increased gentrification have become too familiar in urban America.

Children born to poor parents have little real chance at becoming rich — or even middle class. A federal inheritance tax could help solve this.

Trump’s pick for treasury secretary isn’t the only one rich enough to lose track of millions. There’s an enormous disparity in corporate pay and some states are ready to take action.

Overpaid CEOs make everybody’s blood boil. But the minute you suggest there might be a responsible role for policymakers in addressing the problem, watch out.

New paper makes the case that a global tax on concentrated wealth is ethical, politically viable, good for growth, and could solve a lot of the world’s problems.

The UK Labor Party has revived an FDR-era aspiration of imposing a maximum wage on the highest earners, among other radical proposals to stem inequality.

While official Washington digs in against paid leave, locals in the nation’s capital helped win one of the country’s most generous family and medical leave plans.

With Washington looking hopeless, it’s up to local communities to close the gap between the richest and the rest.

Donald Trump and the business kingpins populating his inner circle want to slice the tax bill of America’s top 0.1 percent.

Unchecked, private foundations can become blocks of concentrated unaccountable power with considerable clout in shaping our laws and culture.

America’s next secretary of commerce may be a private equity kingpin who owes his fortune to a career of manipulating American workers.

Top-Heavy Philanthropy in an Age of Extreme Inequality

In a tale of people power over corporate power, a tribunal has ruled against a global company in a case over mining rights.