Blogging Our Great Divide

A minimum wage hike would boost earnings for 40 million workers.

A decade after a reckless bonus culture crashed the economy, Wall Street titans still rake in massive paychecks while many of their employees struggle to make ends meet.

People of modest means seem to face endless political gridlock when they want systems — like the drug industry — reformed. People of privilege face no such frustration.

A coalition of activists are challenging the financial industry's ties to the gun industry, its lobbyists, and the lawmakers that support it most.

Senator Ron Wyden is digging imaginatively into the innards of taxing capital gains.

At a recent Senate hearing, some officials attempted to divert attention from the real cause of post office financial losses by blaming worker rights.

Here’s a simple test to determine whether politicians are carrying water for the richest 0.1 percent.

"Student-athletes" make billions for others while putting their own futures at risk.

If top U.S. corporations can afford to spend over $5 trillion buying back their own shares of stock, how can the United States not afford a Green New Deal?

The total 2018 Wall Street bonus pool was $27.5 billion — more than 3 times the combined annual earnings of all U.S. full-time minimum wage workers.