Research & Commentary

The unionization trend in the video game industry continues with workers at an Activision Blizzard King studio.

We can have a strong job market and lower inflation — and we don’t need more painful interest rate hikes to do it.

Inequality.org staff share their media suggestions for a holiday that honors the working class.

Cities and states are experimenting with trust fund accounts to narrow the racial wealth divide.

This provision of the Inflation Reduction Act will discourage corporations from siphoning resources from worker wages and productive investments for share repurchases that inflate CEO pay.

Real and lasting economic opportunities for Black families will come only through a serious national reckoning on race.

A century after violent efforts to suppress resistance to class exploitation, the nation has learned to think about people and the economy with a language that favors the wealthy and elides issues of power.

Our tax loopholes let marginal and arbitrary differences in facts give rise to markedly different tax outcomes.

Vast fortunes, inherited or otherwise, simply would not exist without the assaults now destroying our planet. Taxing those fortunes to fund climate action could give us a shot at survival.

And many of us, like my son, need home care today. Our leaders should close the Medicaid coverage gap and bolster funds for home and community-based services. What will it take for Congress to act?