Blogging Our Great Divide

A federal jobs and income guarantee could protect workers the way unions once did.

America’s elected leaders haven’t ignored inequality since 2000. They’ve made it spectacularly worse.

We’ve reached the point where a handful of extraordinarily wealthy clans essentially have the power to suffocate our democracy.

An iconic basketball superstar reminds us that raising taxes on the rich will not end civilization as we know it.

With the estate tax further weakened, is it time to pivot to an inheritance tax?

The toy store's former employees are using public shaming and pension plans to demand severance and fight Wall Street greed.

For Main Street small businesses, the benefits of the Tax Act are peanuts. Nearly half of all the savings go to people making over $1 million a year.

Hiding behind appeals to ‘rationalism,’ the French leader seeks to ‘fix’ the French economy by cozying up to a tiny, binge-eating wealthy elite.

Any court ruling that limits how effectively unions can bargain on behalf of workers, even mainstream economists now recognize, concentrates wealth at our economic summit.

My ancestor’s 19th century story is a reminder of how labor unions have bounced back from even bigger hits than the recent Supreme Court ruling.