Blogging Our Great Divide

America’s farmers are aging. To avoid a crisis, we need to lower the economic barriers of entry for young farmers.

Pay levels for top U.S. corporate execs have lost any connection to organizational rationality.

Young workers already facing high rents and student debt will pay the biggest price for Social Security cuts. We can’t sit on the sidelines.

Private foundations are currently allowed to make grants to donor-advised funds, or DAFs, and to count those grants toward their charitable distribution requirement of 5 percent of their assets each year.

The Supreme Court is erasing our shared responsibility for educating each and every child.

In 1776, public-spirited patriots emerged from the ranks of America’s most privileged. Today’s richest offer up precious little of that public spirit. Why?

When ultra-wealthy donors dominate philanthropy, our charities are less resilient.

Institute for Policy Studies Executive Director Tope Folarin and Chuck Collins were both inspired by Ursula K. LeGuin to write fiction novels. Together they explore how can fiction shape new narratives for the future.

New fact sheets by the Poor People’s Campaign and the Institute for Policy Studies reveal disturbing data on systemic racism, poverty and inequality, ecological devastation, and militarism in every U.S. state. 

Let's raise the contribution cap, get rid of tax preferences for gilded CEO retirement accounts, and use the extra revenue to expand retirement benefits.