Blogging Our Great Divide

A Wall Street reform organizer is encouraged by a surge of activism to protect consumers, including low-income families, students, and African-Americans who are major users of unregulated prepaid debit cards.

America’s top airline execs have every incentive to treat average passengers as cattle and chattel. Could United's now infamous aisle drag upset their gravy train?

While you and I file our taxes, Republicans want to make it even easier for big banks to dodge them. Did you pay all of your taxes this April? Wall...

Activists have organized Tax Day marches across the country to demand the release of Trump's tax returns -- and send a message about a tax system that enriches the wealthy....

The deepest of our deep pockets are now pumping millions into immortality research. Should we be amused — or alarmed?

It takes serious mental gymnastics to argue that Trump's tax agenda would benefit the average working Joe or Jane. After the failed effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act (aka...

Corporate CEOs are cheering a new White House executive order that lets them keep cheating on the taxpayer dime. But taxpayers may well be wising up.

New study points to rising hopelessness as a major driver of the declining health and life expectancy of working class white Americans.

A new campaign is rising up to “Trump-proof Seattle” with innovative city-level solutions to the deep problems created by the administration’s proposed budget cuts.

The Trump pick now running the Securities and Exchange Commission invited America to dump on government regulation. America declined.