How to Shrink the Wealth Gap for Minorities and Everyone Else While We Study Reparations
Reparations need to be part of this discussion, but we should also look at policies that would turn around our regressive economy for all Americans.
Reparations need to be part of this discussion, but we should also look at policies that would turn around our regressive economy for all Americans.
The richest among us are preaching the ‘opportunity’ gospel. Don’t fall for it.
Inequality in the U.S. can be reversed, in part, through intentional social programs and tax reform.
The divide is much bigger than most people suppose. It’s also fixable.
People of modest means face endless political gridlock when they want systems — like the drug industry — reformed. People of privilege face no such frustration.
Contrary to Donald Trump’s redbaiting campaign, progressive initiatives such as imposing heavier taxes on the nation’s wealthiest citizens and corporations, establishing a universal health care system and forging ahead with the proposed Green New Deal actually have bipartisan support.
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.
The scary arithmetic of grand fortune is shrinking our household nest-eggs.
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.
China and the United States — two nations notorious for their helicopter parenting — just happen to sport two of the world’s deepest economic divides. Coincidence?
Black and Latino unemployment hit historic lows in 2018, but this is not enough to close the enormous gaps in wealth.
Sanders’ new ‘For the 99.8% Act’ is squarely aimed at preventing the children of today’s billionaires from dominating our future democracy, economy, culture and philanthropy
Taxing wealth over $50 million would be an investment in protecting our country from the tyranny of a plutocracy.
The new Congress needs to prioritize economic policies that empower low-wealth families.
And it’s not just about rich and poor. The racial wealth gap is damaging to the economy as a whole.