Blogging Our Great Divide

A new civic group report is calling living conditions ‘harsh’ in California’s high-tech hotspot.

The Strong For All coalition is pressing for “budget justice,” a package of higher taxes on the very rich rather than austerity budget cuts and new levies that hit the non-wealthy. 

Americans are living a little longer. But we still lag well behind the developed world’s life expectancy norm. As the world’s most unequal developed nation, we shouldn’t be surprised.

The bipartisan bill would ease the financial challenges that critics have used to justify calls for postal worker wage cuts and selling lucrative parts of the service to for-profit corporations.

In his State of the Union address, the president made a poor attempt to conceal the continued rise in economic inequality under his administration.

The United Nations may be fading, but this just-released report deserves a bright spotlight.

The NFL strives to keep politics out of football ahead of the Super Bowl, except for when it comes from billionaire owners.

As the big caucus night approaches, activists are working to help low-income residents overcome multiple barriers to participation

We should focus on the enablers exposed in the Angola scandal: Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey, and PwC.

Taxes are the best and only appropriate way to ensure adequate investment in the things our societies need.