Blogging Our Great Divide

Local gentrification cycles have been “supercharged” by the fact that many cities are now a global destination to park investment capital.

A toxic combination of exploitation, corruption, and greed tarnish soccer’s governing body.

Black women, suffering from both the gender and racial wealth gap, are using their voting power to fight back. BlackHer provides the resources and information necessary to increase their political and economic representation.

‘Respectable’ corporate giants in the United States today are stealing their employees blind. We need to better understand how — and why.

Will we live to see a personal fortune worth $1 trillion? We’re rolling relentlessly to that ignoble day.

America’s largest state once offered residents a world-class, debt-free college education. It could again, and so could your state.

The City of Boston, when it should be working vigorously to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, is allowing housing for the superrich that locks the city into new fossil fuel infrastructure.

High school student Kevin Short is working with Kentuckians for the Commonwealth to ensure the state prioritizes people over coal profits.

Amid rising inequality, a new book argues, the notion of capping income has suddenly become politically plausible.

At Barbie-maker Mattel, the CEO pulls in 5,000 times the firm's median worker pay.