As the Scots begin tackling their rising incarceration problem, America should learn from them.

It sounds crazy, but a major distraction in our debate about inequality in America today is inequality itself.

We have taxes on the labor we do and another set of taxes on wealth.

Instead of new rhetoric about the middle class, Presidential candidates should invent policies to save it.

The protesters in Baltimore need to be heard. Are we listening?

This simple question can’t seem to get a simple answer. A look at some new attempts to explain why.

In the wake of Walmart’s decision to raise workers’ wages, Dollar General announced it will offer better schedules.

A new landmark student debt strike is drawing attention to the desperate need for action on a student debt crisis that’s enriching a few at the expense of an entire generation.

Walmart raised wages after being pressured by its own employees, but it still outpaces the pack when it comes to overpaid execs. – See more at: http://inequality.org/walmart-needs-maximum-wage/#sthash.45cZkNDm.dpuf

The President’s populist budget will leave Republicans scrambling to explain why they don’t support it.

The rules are stacked against most of us.

Americans pay more for an economy that pumps our treasure to the top than you probably think.

From Thomas Piketty to Black Lives Matter, inequality remains a top issue for Americans. Here’s a roundup of the top 5 inequality moments of 2014.

Port truck drivers are denied the very same employment rights that workers in the first Gilded Age fought so hard to achieve.

A new law in San Francisco to curb erratic scheduling practices could be the first of many.

No statistical contortion can hide the growing divide between the 1 percent and everyone else.

For women who make their living off tips, sexual harassment is a constant workplace peril.

A millionaire’s attempt to explain why he’s better than you falls flat.

The outsourcing of public services to private go-getters has concentrated wealth the whole world over. The best answer to that concentration? That just may be new forms of public ownership.

More than enough, the latest statistical evidence suggests, to warrant a full-fledged federal search. A new banking law in effect this month could start that search in the right direction.