The Year in Inequality in 10 Charts
Our economic and racial divides grew even wider in 2021, but there are signs of hope for a more equitable future.
Unemployment Insurance Isn’t Holding Back the Economy. Inequality Is.
Ending enhanced unemployment benefits didn’t get people back to work. It just made them poorer.
Black Labor Leaders and Advocates Reflect on the Pandemic and What Comes Next
We asked nine leading Black labor organizers and policy advocates how to advance racial equity in the COVID recovery — and beyond. Here are their responses.
10 Charts on the State of U.S. Workers on the 2nd Pandemic Labor Day
While workers are continuing to struggle under COVID, corporate lobbyists are converging on Capitol Hill to block proposed pro-labor reforms.
Employers: If You Want Workers, Pay a Living Wage
It’s not that people don’t want to work — it’s that they don’t want to work for so little.
Trump, the Job Killer
Debate moderators should ask Trump: If you’ve brought back manufacturing jobs, why have 1,800 U.S. factories closed under your watch?
US Billionaire Wealth Surges to $584 Billion, or 20 Percent, Since the Beginning of the Pandemic
In just three months, the U.S. added 29 more billionaires while 45.5 million filed for unemployment.
‘Failed State’ Status Here We Come?
Societies that tolerate deep divides in income and wealth invite pandemic disasters.
US Billionaire Wealth Surges $434 Billion as Unemployment Filers Top 38 Million
The combined wealth of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has climbed by nearly $60 billion in the last two months.
Slaughterhouses Aren’t Just for Cattle, Hogs, and Poultry Anymore. Add People.
A powerful industry is making workers choose between their lives and their jobs.
Forget Work Requirements for the Poor — Guarantee Them a Job Instead
Instead of stigmatizing struggling people, a jobs guarantee would do far more to lift poverty than Trump’s mean-spirited work requirement ever could.
One-Time Bonuses, Full-Time Con: Trump’s Tax Cuts Deliver Worker Layoffs
Corporate public relations teams extol bonuses to pump up the Republican re-election effort, but many people will end up unemployed.
Automation Kills Jobs and Brings Mass Poverty. Call That Progress?
The “One Rich Guy” who profits would.
Can Korean Millennials Transform the Country’s Political System?
The next generation of Koreans could take part in a national revival of South Korea and put the ghosts of the 20th century to rest.
Looking Beyond the Headlines on Black Jobs and Workers in America
The potential for black workers to rejuvenate the U.S. labor movement and transform it into the ultimate working class and civil rights vehicle is enormous.