There’s No Labor Shortage. Pay Workers What They Deserve.
It’s not that people don’t want to work — it’s that they don’t want to work for so little.
Blogging Our Great Divide
New developments on the inequality front? Our Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org editorial team tracks them here.
How Corporations Pumped Up CEO Pay While Their Low-Wage Workers Suffered in the Pandemic
More than half of the country’s 100 largest low-wage employers rigged pay rules in 2020 to give CEOs 29 percent average raises while their frontline employees made 2 percent less.
House Dems Push Postal Banking Pilots as an Alternative to Predatory Firms
Thirty-three members have asked for federal budget funding to test out expanded postal financial services in 10 rural and urban communities.
Bill, Melinda, and the Burden of Grand Fortune
We can’t buy happiness, but greater equality could make it more likely.
Care Advocates Celebrate Big Wins in American Families Plan
Their mantra? Celebrate today. Organize tomorrow.
The Billionaires Who Couldn’t Kick Straight
America’s super rich and their European pals have failed spectacularly in a scheme to kill global football’s most egalitarian traditions.
Migrant Women Farmworkers: An Invisible Essential Labor Force
The Biden administration must address the industry’s long-standing gender discrimination and systemic inequalities, which have become even more severe during the pandemic.
Responding to Concerns about the Emergency Charity Stimulus Proposal
Make no mistake: this pandemic is the "rainy day" DAFs and foundations have been saving for.
What Can We Do to Start Civilizing Our Richest?
Worldwide, ever more of us are realizing we need a ceiling on what our greediest can grab.