Blogging Our Great Divide

Boston’s luxury boom figures to accelerate the city's already troubling disparities of income, wealth and opportunity.

Romero promises to delve into immigration reform when she takes over the union later this year.

We know a great deal more about how unequal we’ve become than our progressive forbears did in America’s original Gilded Age. But can data fuel a fight for a more equal world?

A class-action lawsuit against a D.C. institution underscores the need for one fair wage.

A coalition of academics and activists are taking on the dogma of growth and calling for a radical reorganization of the economy.

While the ruling red-green bloc is running on an anti-inequality agenda, an insurgent anti-immigrant party is drowning out their message with fearmongering.

More than two-thirds of the top federal contractors and corporate subsidy recipients paid their CEO more than 100 times their median worker pay in 2017.

Billions in U.S. taxpayer dollars, a new Institute for Policy Studies report details, are going to CEOs who pay their workers peanuts. We can change that.

Sometimes percentages alone don’t do justice to the injustice of corporate compensation.

A handy guide for understanding when a democracy ceases to be particularly democratic.