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.
Blogging Our Great Divide
New developments on the inequality front? Our Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org editorial team tracks them here.
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.
Shielding Wall Street From Bigotry
Perhaps Phil Gramm could run a telethon to support ex-executives shamed for their fat retirement packages.
Do the Rich Rule America?
Our campaign finance system isn’t just sending us toward a new Gilded Age — it's a new Platinum Age.
Who Will Care for Grandma?
One key to finding the best caregiver for aging relatives? Pay them a living wage.
A U.S. Pay Ratio Disclosure Victory!
The federal Securities and Exchange Commission has just given Americans an official yardstick for measuring corporate CEO greed. The sourest person in the nation’s capital today just may have been...
India Spotlights Corporate Pay Ratios
In India, major corporations now have to disclose their CEO and median worker pay. This disclosure could be a CEO pay game changer. Over the past five years, new data...
Restoring Labor Rights in Bangladesh
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...
Is Wall Street Pay Too High?
Let's rein in Wall Street pay before the high-flying gamblers drive us back to the brink.