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In any society where great stashes of wealth amass at the top, philosopher Elizabeth Anderson reminds us, the wealthy will sooner or later see most of the rest of us as failures.

Even three-time World Cup winners face the gender pay gap.

To move his campaign forward, Bernie Sanders should focus on environmental justice. Even though we are still months away from the Democratic primary, it can’t be denied that Bernie Sanders...

On Black Women's Pay Equity Day, experts weigh in on income inequality for African-American women. By Kimberly Freeman Brown and Marc Bayard This past Tuesday was Black Women's Pay Equity...

Corporations are skipping out on taxes that would fund public education. By Paul Buchheit [caption id="attachment_9350" align="alignright" width="300"] Credit: commondreams.org[/caption] Corporations have reaped trillion-dollar benefits from 60 years of public...

Two years after the April 24, 2013, collapse of the Rana Plaza building, Bangladesh has become a laboratory to test whether pressure from worldwide labor unions and NGOs in support...

Those who seek to privatize everything have a five-step process. By Paul Buchheit [caption id="attachment_9329" align="alignright" width="300"] Credit: Common Dreams[/caption] Law enforcement, education, health care, water management, government itself --...

Let's rein in Wall Street pay before the high-flying gamblers drive us back to the brink.

America's schools are not failing; America is failing its schools.

As the Scots begin tackling their rising incarceration problem, America should learn from them.

  Regulators of the Great Depression era could teach their modern-day counterparts a few lessons in how to get things done. Consider, for example, how fast the Securities and Exchange...

The decline of unions precipitated the rise of the underground economy. By Claire Goldstene  In 2014, slightly over 11 percent of American workers were union members, as compared to 20...