Income for Me, Wealth for We
We all contribute to the creation of wealth. Yet we let the wealth created settle in the pockets of a few. A simple but fundamental change in the source of...
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The Real Secrets to Grand Fortune
The moneymaking techniques today generating mega millions and more, the global business analyst Sam Wilkin is wittily making plain, almost all rest on schemes for defeating the forces of honest...
6 Facts About Corporate Tax Avoidance
The facts on state-by-state corporate tax avoidance reveal that people across the country are losing revenues that should be going to education and infrastructure. By Paul Buchheit [caption id="attachment_9650" align="alignright"...
Understanding Dorothy Day Economics
Why Pope Francis celebrated the life of Dorothy Day in his Capitol Hill address It was heartening and surprising to hear Pope Francis lift up the legacy of Dorothy Day...
Do We Need a Maximum Wage?
The new leader of the UK Labour Party is talking about capping income. Most Americans might be surprised to know that FDR did, too.
Gender Pay Gap Drives Inequality
It's a refrain we've heard a million times. "Women make 78 cents for every dollar a man makes." But what does it really mean?
How to Make Bad Jobs Good 101
Whether industrial or service, jobs become “good” only because of coordinated pressure from workers. Current campaigns across the United States to unionize service workers reflect a decades-long transformation, as service-sector employment...
Popes, Post-Partisanship, and Prisons
We all want a piece of the pope—or at least a piece of the Pope-a-Palooza. Here in DC, our hysteria greets the Catholic [caption id="attachment_9596" align="alignright" width="300"] Pope Francis...
Fair Housing in an Unfair Society
In deeply unequal communities, phenomena like gentrification are forcing us to rethink principles of social change that we used to consider axiomatic. By Peter Marcuse [caption id="attachment_9548" align="alignright" width="400"] Amid...
On Privilege and Persecution
In our unequal world, we abound with inequalities that deeply corrode our public life and civility.
Making America Work for Workers
This Labor Day, let's end the erratic scheduling practices that keep the country's workers reliant on the whims of their employers.
Remember the American Dream?
Watching Donald Trump trash immigrants and refer none-too-obliquely to people who are less fortunate as “losers”—all while wearing a hat emblazoned with the slogan “Make America Great Again”—is giving me a bad case of depression.