Who is Buying Seattle? The Perils of the Luxury Real Estate Boom
A snapshot of luxury condominiums and their ownership and occupancy trends offers a preliminary peek at the challenges posed by Seattle’s luxury boom.
Blogging Our Great Divide
New developments on the inequality front? Our Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org editorial team tracks them here.
Have Researchers Just Hit an Inequality Trifecta?
Three new sets of stats help us understand why America’s 400 richest have never been richer.
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.
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