Fore! How We Pay When Plutocrats Play
From Hong Kong to Los Angeles, people of ordinary means are squeezing into expensive housing and subsidizing country clubs for the golfing super rich.
Blogging Our Great Divide
New developments on the inequality front? Our Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org editorial team tracks them here.
The Post Office as an Alternative to Shady Private Banks
A Senate bill would fill a void in many rural and low-income communities by reintroducing low-cost lending at neighborhood post offices.
The Moral Revolution America Needs
Poor people of all races are shifting the national conversation on poverty and race from "right vs. left" to "right vs. wrong."
Road to Zero Wealth Reaches Pod Save the People
Host DeRay McKesson talks to Inequality.org co-editors Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie about their racial wealth divide report.
Rep. Keith Ellison Takes a Hard Look at New CEO Pay Ratio Data
The Minnesota lawmaker has been a champion of efforts to defend the disclosure reform from Republican attack.
Building a United Working Class in North Carolina
Down Home North Carolina is organizing a multiracial movement to restore power to the state's working people.
Gender Justice at the Heart of the Poor People’s Campaign
The campaign's first week of nonviolent moral direct actions will shine a spotlight on the problems of women in poverty.
Congress Made It Harder to Give Teachers Raises
Under the new GOP tax law, states that pay teachers a living wage subsidize states that pay them poorly.
Restoring Opportunity: Taxing Wealth to Fund College For All in California
New report finds initiative to restore the California state estate tax could make college accessible for millions of students in the state.
Three Cheers for a Frugal Brooklyn Legal Secretary
But let’s give only a Bronx cheer to the flacks for grand fortune who exploit the lessons of her remarkable life.