Poor People’s Campaign and House Progressives Call for a ‘Third Reconstruction’
A new Congressional resolution lays out a comprehensive vision for eradicating poverty and tackling racial and economic inequality.
A new Congressional resolution lays out a comprehensive vision for eradicating poverty and tackling racial and economic inequality.
The avarice virus escaped decades ago from corporate boardrooms. We can beat it.
We can’t buy happiness, but greater equality could make it more likely.
While working families are suffering under the pandemic, corporate boards have bent the rules to protect massive CEO paychecks.
The answer from a blue-ribbon medical commission on the Trump years: decades of rising inequality.
Our task ahead: preventing a deeply unequal world from recreating pre-pandemic business as usual.
Real change only happens, the New Deal era suggests, when a president’s ear is hearing the shouts of mass movements.
The nation’s woefully inadequate response to the pandemic is jeopardizing millions of retirement futures.
The Trump 2017 tax act penalizes states that tax income responsibly.
Billionaires are sequestered in protective bubbles and private jets while essential workers are without adequate personal protective equipment.
On November 3, voters in many states and cities approved a variety of inequality-related proposals, from taxing the wealthy to increasing the minimum wage and tenant protections.
Higher voter turnouts mask the reality of the ‘affluent authoritarianism’ the now governs America.
A ballot measure to increase taxes on corporations with extreme gaps between CEO and median worker pay sailed through on a 65-35 margin.
On November 3, voters in many states and cities will weigh in on a variety of inequality-related proposals, from taxing the wealthy to increasing worker and tenant protections.
If current distributional trends continue, new Fed wealth data suggest, our future divides will be even wider.