Gentrification Now Has More than Landlubbers Worried
Deep pockets have displaced modest-income people from plenty of prime urban terra firma. Could our offshore be next?
Stop & Shop Workers End 11-Day Strike With a Tentative Agreement
Striking workers won backing from every corner of their community, from local rabbis preparing for Passover to placard-carrying toddlers.
Patriotic Millionaires Have Simple Message: Tax the Rich
Activists, academics, and elected officials gathered in Washington to explain why and how we should raise taxes on the wealthy.
Big Pharma Runs Roughshod Over American Democracy
People of modest means face endless political gridlock when they want systems — like the drug industry — reformed. People of privilege face no such frustration.
Is Your Bank Loaded? A New Report Has the Answer
A coalition of activists is challenging the financial industry’s ties to the gun industry, its lobbyists, and the lawmakers that support it most.
Should We Tax Capital Gains?
Tax-the-rich proposals just keep coming. The latest, a capital gains tax, would hit households earning over $10 million annually the hardest.
Scapegoating Unions for the Postal Service’s Phony Crisis
At a recent Senate hearing, some officials attempted to divert attention from the real cause of post office financial losses by blaming worker rights.
Stop Saying We Can’t Afford a Green New Deal
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.
Meet the Billionaires Profiting off Job Losses at GM
Hedge fund heads buy up mansions and NFL teams, all on the tab of autoworkers.
A Handout for Uber and Lyft Is No Replacement for Public Transit
Transportation network services have resisted regulations on workers’ rights, traffic safety, and the environment. The public shouldn’t subsidize them.
A New Moneyball for Our Deeply Unequal Age
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.
Has America’s Concentrated Wealth Finally Reached a Tipping Point?
The scary arithmetic of grand fortune is shrinking our household nest-eggs.
Climate-Striking Young People Get Climate Change. Why Can’t Their Elders?
In deeply unequal societies, the rich and powerful never feel the environmental pain.
Disrupting Narratives That Justify Inequality and Poverty
Chuck Collins speaks with Project Twist-It’s Mary O’Hara about narratives that individualize the causes of structural inequality and serve the interests of powerful elites.
Harvard, Stanford, and Columbia Each Received Over a Billion Dollars in New Donations Last Year
Inequality in America’s system of higher education runs deep. Here’s why you should care.