Blogging Our Great Divide

A beneficiary of family wealth speaks out against a D.C. City Council proposal to pay for estate tax cuts by shortchanging public services.

American taxpayers are subsidizing the windfalls that go to execs at low-wage employers like Walmart. Here’s a promising idea that could help reverse the subsidizing.

But health care costs, not corporate taxes, are the real drain on the U.S. economy.

The Great Recession, a new study shows, has driven the sharpest decline in reported happiness since researchers started collecting consistent data.

In today’s ‘union-free’ environment, top execs have the freedom to pay themselves at levels their predecessors would have considered unimaginable.

With Congress working to shield overpaid executives from scrutiny, a business owner turned state legislator is working to rein in runaway CEO pay.

Former Washington insiders love to lament the fading of the bipartisan spirit. They ought to be lamenting the fading of the equality they so lamely defended.

A new film documents the struggle of black families to gain — and retain — middle class status in the face of a deep-seated systemic racism. Hollywood typically depicts America’s...

A provocative speech implores mainstream economists to recognize the need for a new approach to understanding rising economic inequality.  Economists need to stop pretending what they do rates as a...

How far-fetched a rationale for the new Trump tax-cut giveaway can we expect? Even the Trump White House wouldn’t go this far, would it?