Should Zoom Be a Public Utility?
Online platforms like Zoom and Skype have become basic, public necessities as our lives are upended by the coronavirus. Should they be nationalized?
Blogging Our Great Divide
New developments on the inequality front? Our Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org editorial team tracks them here.
100 House Democrats Call for Cap on CEO-Worker Pay Gaps at Bailed-Out Firms
Meanwhile, Republicans have proposed pathetically weak executive pay restrictions for companies relying on taxpayer support.
How to Wage War, FDR-Style, on Our Pandemic
People fight harder, Franklin Roosevelt understood, when the rich don’t get richer.
How to Make the Airline Bailout Work for Workers, Not Just CEOs
The government should provide direct wage subsidies to airline workers while restricting CEO pay to no more than 50 times median wages.
The Detroit Organizers Long Demanding Water Justice
As cities and states grapple with the spread of coronavirus, activists remind government why water is a human right and not a commodity.
Does the Coronavirus Crisis Have to End with a Wealthier Wealthy?
This time around, let’s use the power of the public purse to reduce inequality.
I Have an Issue with How Exit Polls Treat Issues
Polling questions that isolate ‘inequality’ do no justice to the social ills that ail us.
California Seniors Protest Eviction with ‘Walker Brigade’
'If I have to move I'm going to lose my friends, my house, my doctor, my neighborhood. Everything.'
Billionaires: A Visual Explainer
An illustrated look at a system allowing billionaire wealth to balloon, all at the expense of everything else we care about.
Why Do Cars Kill More People in Unequal Nations?
The dynamics of inequality have left our highways and byways more dangerous.