Blogging Our Great Divide

If current distributional trends continue, new Fed wealth data suggest, our future divides will be even wider.

The Minnesota-based Awood Center is receiving a prestigious human rights award for their support of immigrant warehouse workers fighting for dignity and justice on the job.

A new report addresses housing shortages and vacancies in Los Angeles.

The tax code has one set of rules for the super-rich and another for everyone else. A cottage industry exists to help them avoid taxes.

We need a fresh approach to trade that lifts up workers everywhere — not the CEOs who pit workers and communities against each other for their own personal gain.

At tax time in a plutocratic America, anything goes for a family like the Trumps.

A new data visualization series illustrates how the pandemic and flawed policy responses have widened long-standing economic, racial, and gender divides.

Why we need to shove inequality onto America’s political center stage

The reporters behind the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers have more to share. We should pay attention.

He believed the estate tax was an “economic opportunity recycling program.”