The first 10 Democratic presidential candidates took the stage at Detroit’s Fox Theatre on Tuesday for the second round of presidential debates. As they defended their positions and attacked their opponents, NBC News fact checked their claims in real time....
How do you build a movement? How do you connect people across race and religion and identity in order to create a united coalition? This is the work of Rev. Dr. William Barber II, one of the best and most important political voices in America right now. He has...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said recently he opposes paying government reparations to the descendants of American slaves, has a family history deeply entwined in the issue: Two of his great-great-grandfathers were slave owners, U.S. census records...
If you’ve been to an event with a Democrat running for president this year, there’s a good chance you’ve heard about it: the racial wealth gap. … Read the full article at NBC News.
It might not land you in the ranks of the ultra-wealthy, but it still pays to work on Wall Street. Wall Street firms paid employees an average bonus of $153,700 in 2018, according to numbers released Tuesday by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. The figure...
African-American women are coming together to rise above gender inequality. Women of color represented the majority of new women elected to Congress in the 2018 midterm elections, and state and local elections followed a similar trend. More minority women are also...
Last week, Congress ended the federal shutdown — at least for now — slowing the daily flow of stories about furloughed workers who cannot pay their rent, work but have no savings, or are insured but cannot afford their medication. … Read the full article at...
Millionaires and billionaires will enjoy their private flights much more this winter season following the GOP’s tax reform plan. The recently passed tax bill will provide the biggest wins for America’s richest citizens, according to expert analysis. Some of these...
Trans student Grace Dolan-Sandrino says she has a “right to use the bathroom” and a “right to [her] voice” and plans to use both of them to advance transgender equality and combat ignorance. Watch the interview on NBC News.
Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, said she sees potential hope in the messages Obama and Putin delivered to the United Nations General Assembly last month. Obama seemed willing to talk to Russia about avoiding conflicts in the air over...
The think tank looked at the 25 best-paid CEOs for each of the last 20 years. There were 241 executives on the list in total, because many appeared for multiple years. That means that the 40 percent average includes many chief executives who have appeared on the lists...
