California Takes On the NCAA and Allows College Athletes to Get Paid
A new law could change the culture of college sports, and upturn a model that lets coaches feast while players struggle to make ends meet.
Blogging Our Great Divide
New developments on the inequality front? Our Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org editorial team tracks them here.
The Key to Distributing Wealth More Equitably
We only build — and sustain — more equal societies when we confront the economic dynamics that generate inequality in the first place.
Paying the Boss 1,000 Times More Than a Worker Encourages Corporate Recklessness
At the city, state, and federal levels, momentum is building to tax corporations with extreme gaps between CEO and worker pay.
We’ve Waited Too Long for Corporations to Fix the CEO Pay Problem on Their Own
A decade after bonus-chasing executives like Angelo Mozilo crashed the economy, we need tax incentives to push companies to narrow the gaps between CEO and worker pay.
The Trump Administration Thinks Grad Students Aren’t Workers. Grad Students Tell Them to Think Again.
Graduate students aren't just mobilizing against the NLRB. They're demanding democracy in their workplace.
No One Should Have To Bargain For Health Care
As the GM strike shows, employers use their workers’ health as a bargaining chip. Medicare for All would end that.
The Pols — and Philosophers — Exploring Limits on Wealth
Egalitarians worldwide are advancing the ‘most blasphemous idea’ in our contemporary political discourse
People and Planet Over Profit at the Youth Climate Strikes
Millions of young people around the world join global strike to demand climate action ahead of UN Climate Summit.
The GM Strike: A Century of Context
In deeply unequal societies, real gains for working people never come easy.
What The Felicity Huffman Scandal Says About America
Low-income parents risk jail for putting their kids in better public schools, while the rich bribe colleges to shut the poor out.