Blogging Our Great Divide

Colombia has new leaders who see the direct link between plutocracy and the plunder of our most valuable ecosystem.

Running on a platform of gender equity, progressive taxation, and environmental protection, Colombia’s first leftist president could bring much-needed change to a deeply unequal nation.

Pandemic disparities have driven workers at Starbucks and several other low-wage employers to demand a fair reward for their labor.

The Poor People's Campaign marched on Washington to demand that politicians legislate to protect the fundamental rights of 140 million poor and low-wealth people in America. Here's why a pastor from New York joined them.

Private pensions no longer narrow our income gaps. Taxing the rich to boost Social Security could.

This report examines the growing wealth of billionaires and other ultra-high net worth individuals in Massachusetts — where voters will have the chance to levy a 4 percent surtax on those making more than $1 million a year this November.

Watch this stunning time lapse illustration of the rise of donor-advised funds (DAFs) as the largest recipients of charitable gifts.

At the major U.S. firms that compensate workers the worst, chiefs now pocket 670 times their typical worker pay.

President Biden has the power to crack down on executive excess by imposing new CEO pay and buyback restrictions on federal contractors.

The UK and the USA have each spent the last half-century enriching the few and failing the many.