A Living Wage is a Human Right
More than one in three Indiana households cannot afford the basics of housing, food, health care and transportation, despite working 40 or more hours a week.
New Research & Commentary
Fake Facts About CEO Pay
A conservative think tank’s efforts to hide the reality of the massive pay gap between big company CEOs and average American workers don’t pass the laugh test.
Caregivers on Verge of Historic Win
In Washington, Congress is considering deep health care cuts to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy. In Hawai’i, lawmakers have approved landmark new financial support for family caregivers.
Building on the May Day Protests
The record-breaking crowds at rallies around the country are sparking momentum and building solidarity for the fights ahead. The protests drew in both new and longtime activists.
Privileging the Income of the Privileged
The recently announced tax plan from President Donald Trump reserves its highest rates for the income people actually labor to earn — and extends preferential treatment to income from wealth.
Making Wall St. Loopholes Great Again
The two most prominent spokesmen for President Donald Trump’s first White House tax plan, Gary Cohn and Steven Mnuchin, turn out to be poster boys for Wall Street’s chronic tax-dodging.
Trump’s Twisted Spending Priorities
The President’s first White House budget proposal shows exactly where his most basic priorities lie: in shielding the nation’s most wealthy and maintaining America’s oversized military.
Life-or-Death Budget Fights
A Chicago-based activist who has overcome mental health challenges is helping to lead a battle for moral tax and spending policies at the state and federal levels.
Using Renewables to Reduce Inequality
A new report explains how states and cities can use renewable portfolio standards and shared solar programs to reduce the power of fossil fuel corporations and lift up low-income households.
Building on the April Tax Marches
Grassroots activists are taking the tax justice fight to Goldman Sachs, demanding that Wall Street start paying its fair share. Goldman has dodged over $5 billion in taxes over recent years.
Blogging our Grand Divide
Congress Wants to Cut Your Health Care — And Billionaires’ Taxes
But health care costs, not corporate taxes, are the real drain on the U.S. economy.
Inequality Makes Us Sad
The Great Recession, a new study shows, has driven the sharpest decline in reported happiness since researchers started collecting consistent data.
Where Did Our Trade Unions Go?
In today’s ‘union-free’ environment, top corporate execs have the freedom to essentially pay themselves at levels their predecessors would have considered unimaginable.
States v. Congress on CEO Pay
While Congress is working to shield overpaid executives from scrutiny, a business owner turned state legislator is working to rein in runaway CEO pay.
Bill Bradley Strolls Down Memory Lane
Former Washington insiders love to lament the fading of the bipartisan spirit. They ought to be lamenting the fading of the equality they so lamely defended.
Must Watch: Against All Odds
A new film documents the struggle of black families to gain — and retain — middle class status in the face of a deep-seated systemic racism.
On the Moral Burden Economists Bear
A provocative speech implores mainstream economists to look beyond their veil of neutral science and recognize the need for a new approach to understanding rising economic inequalities.
Adventures in the Safety Spin Zone
How far-fetched a rationale for the new Trump tax-cut giveaway can we expect? Even the Trump White House wouldn’t go this far, would it?
In France, Echoes of a Daring FDR
With a call for an income cap on society’s richest, a longshot presidential campaign has thrown a giant scare into the French political elite.
The Case for a Universal Basic Income
A former labor leader is urging unconventional political alliances in support of public policy to buffer workers from the coming automation age.
Our top reads
Twin Peaks Planet
Between our world’s twin peaks — the ever-richer global elite and the rising Chinese middle class — lies what we might call the valley of despond: the stagnating incomes of the advanced-country working classes. (source)
The Rise and Rise of the Top 0.1 Percent
New research unveiled in 2014 has solved the puzzle in our statistics on economic inequality. (source)
World’s 400 Richest Add $92 Billion in 2014
The globe’s 400 wealthiest billionaires are ending the year worth a combined $4.1 trillion, an average $10.3 billion each. (source)
