How States Can Better Care for Direct Care Workers
A new report offers recommendations for state policymakers looking to strengthen the backbone of the care economy — the direct care workers themselves.
Blogging Our Great Divide
New developments on the inequality front? Our Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org editorial team tracks them here.
Global Labor Movement Loses a Champion
Former AFL-CIO international affairs director Barbara Shailor fought for the rights of working people around the world.
Out of Ottawa, Some Deflating New Stats on Life in the World’s Richest Nation
An innovative binational analysis details how plutocracy is squeezing low- and middle-income Americans.
What Medicare for All Would Have Meant a Decade Ago
Imagine if a new generation could experience guaranteed care, with quality not determined by wealth or income, but instead delivered as the human right it should be.
Can the Wealthy Hardwire Inequality into Our DNA?
We need more than a moratorium on making inheritable edits in our genetic code. We need a moratorium on people getting rich off of editing our genes.
Airline Catering Workers Connect Poverty Wages to Corporate Greed
Thousands of the subcontracted workers who prepare and deliver in-flight meals are demanding better pay and healthcare from the multi-billion dollar airline industry.
A Lesson from West Africa, a Global Inequality Ground Zero
To end poverty at the bottom of our economic orders, we need to stop wealth from concentrating at the top.
3 Bills to Rein in Executive Pay
Shortly before heading home for the summer recess, members of Congress are rushing to introduce proposals for cracking down on unpopular, overpaid executives.
It’s Time for a 100 Percent Tax on Billionaire Estates
If we are concerned (and we should be) about the health of our economy, strengthening – not eliminating – the estate tax is the solution.
A Tale of Two Druglords
One gets life behind bars, the other retires into luxury. Guess which one wreaked more havoc.