A Black Agrarian Collective is Working To Build a Self-Sufficient Community
The Maryland-based initiative targets people who have historically helped to build the wealth of this society but had no real participation in that wealth.
Research & Commentary
From academics to activists, thoughtful people worldwide are focusing their attention on economic inequality as never before.
We Need an Essential Workers Bill of Rights
Walmart’s owners are seeing their wealth surge while my former coworkers there go without hazard pay. That has to change.
A Minnesota Cooperative Shares the Wealth While Advancing a Clean Energy Future
Shared ownership is crucial for building the power of communities that have long had their wealth extracted by others.
For Biden, ‘Building Back Better’ Should Be a Global Challenge
U.S. economic recovery efforts will not succeed if the global economy remains weak and serves only a small rich minority.
How Biden Can Tame Wall Street
The next administration has the power to take executive actions without Congressional approval that would help protect Americans from financial industry recklessness and greed.
What Do Inequalities, Covid-19, and International Human Rights Have to Do With Each Other?
A new collective book stresses the importance of a human rights framework for health, economic, and social policies to weather the pandemic.
Corporate Reps Are a Small Minority of Presidential Transition Team Members
Progressives have been pushing Biden and Harris to limit the influence of big corporations and Wall Street in their administration.
Uber and Lyft Notch Another Corporate Victory in the Global Exploitation of ‘Gig Workers’
Labor organizing in California and around the world is pushing platform companies to take extreme measures to defend their exploitative business model.
Portlandia Votes to Tax the Rich to Pay for Universal Pre-K
After making the case that universal preschool is even more important under the pandemic, advocates easily won the vote by a 64-36 margin.
Trump Sold Out Workers Like Me
The president came to Iowa bragging about his jobs record, but he didn’t lift a finger when my 150-year-old plant closed.