Trump Breaks Promise on Medicare, Other Safety Net Programs
Trump promised to keep his hands off of Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security—while also trying to cut them to pieces.
Helicopter Parenting Linked to Economic Inequality?
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?
The ‘Unintended Consequences’ of Letting the Rich Get Richer
Our politics needs to face up to inequality’s deep-set impact on all of us as individuals.
Tax Cuts for the Rich Help the Rich, Not You
Big money will pull out all the stops to sell you a tax plan that exclusively benefits the wealthy. Don’t buy it.
Local Markets Nourish Families and Communities
Expanding access to fresh and local food is smart for people and the planet.
A Summer Storm is Brewing
The need for our safety net is palpable, but the GOP’s hurricane budget is shredding it.
Congressional Coddling of the Rich
Congress is gutting vital programs for the poor while heaping billions of dollars of relief on a few wealthy families.
How Can We Serve Our Public Servants?
A federal program lets promising and indebted college grads pursue careers in the public interest.
Pull Yourself Up by Your Bread Bags
The rules are stacked against most of us.
Does This Definition Make Me Look Rich?
No statistical contortion can hide the growing divide between the 1 percent and everyone else.
Report: Inequality in the Social Security Debate
How benefit cuts would impact health industry CEOs versus home health aides.
The Dropped Ball
While the White House and much of the media spun the hurried late-night move as a victory for the middle class, it was a win paid for with new tax cuts worth hundreds of billions of dollars for America’s wealthiest families.
Social Security: It Ain’t Broke
It’s a basic part of what makes America run, like our national highway system.
The Invisible Hand Won’t Stop Inequality in Its Tracks
We’ll have more economic and climate disasters on Sandy’s scale unless our political systems intervene.
Record Poverty Persists While Gap Between Rich and Rest of Us Increases
Sadly, those who “occupied” Wall Street and city squares across the country in 2011, were right: All of the income gains have concentrated at the top, while the rest of us saw a deterioration or stagnation in our wages and income.