New Yorkers Care About Care. The State Budget Should, Too.
Workers, clients, and advocates rallied in Albany to secure living wages for their state’s hardworking and underpaid home care workers. Will the governor listen?
The Top 10 Inequality Victories of 2022
Champions of a more egalitarian society made important strides, building the power of workers while reducing the power of wealthy tax dodgers and greedy pharma execs.
The Justice McDonald’s Workers Seek Workers at Spain’s Mondragón Have Found
We don’t have to organize our economy around enterprises that pay CEOs over 1,000 times what workers make.
Bring Back May Day
The U.S. is one of the only countries in the world that doesn’t mark International Worker’s Day. So how are our workers doing?
Teen Voices in the Fight to Raise the Minimum Wage in Massachusetts
I Have A Future is a local organization mobilizing youth organizers in Massachusetts to advocate for themselves in the fight to raise the state’s minimum wage.
Tipping Is a Legacy of Slavery That It’s Time to Outgrow
It’s bad for workers, customers, and the economy alike when employers pass the cost of a living wage entirely on to their customers.
The Seattle Minimum Wage Study Is Utter B.S.
Fortunately for workers, credible research still points to raising the minimum wage as one reliable solution to the scourge of inequality.
A Soiled Picture of Art and Labor
The deeply unequal art world’s current economic model simply isn’t working, as the story of one public art effort demonstrates quite clearly.
America’s Racial Wealth Divide Is Nothing Short of Shocking
It would take the average black family 228 years to accrue the same amount of wealth that white families have today.
The Housing Crisis Unfolding in America’s Destination Towns
People with working-class jobs in U.S. beach towns and ski resorts are getting pushed away by exorbitant housing costs.
Nuts to First Class
The growing class divide on airplanes feels a lot like America’s.
Fight for $15 Reaches New Heights
The Fight for $15 campaign has grown into a broad-based social movement.
Wal-Mart Does Something Right
I’ll still protest the giant retailer, but maybe a little more quietly.
Eight Ways To Reduce Global Inequality
By taxing progressively, respecting worker rights, and rethinking economics, we could make a great start at creating a more equal world.
Must Environmentalists and Labor Activists Find Themselves at Odds With Each Other?
The need for jobs, and the ecological limits to growth