Research & Commentary

Housing vouchers and food stamps helped my family escape a dangerous situation. Will families today get the same chance?

While corporate politicians consider cuts to essential programs like Social Security, the ultra-rich continue to exploit dodgy tax loopholes for their own personal gain.

An annual wealth tax on the world’s richest could raise $1.7 trillion globally.

The five detainees include leaders of the campaign that won the world’s first metals mining ban in 2017 -- a ban the cash-strapped government may be moving to overturn.

Conservatives and private interest groups continue to pay lip service to racial equality while consistently protecting the interests of corporations and the wealthy, allowing the racial wealth gap to widen as Black Americans suffer.

Publishers of donor-advised fund data are including hundreds of thousands of workplace giving accounts in their averages. That skews the picture.

"Today, we can return to work with our heads held high, knowing that our victory means safer care for our patients and more sustainable jobs for our profession."

Payday lending is inherently predatory and private equity is turbocharging its abuses, enlarging the burden it places on low-income individuals and borrowers of color.

Lawmakers are considering year-end tax breaks for corporations. A little help for families like yours and mine would go much further.

Local resisters are calling for a different economic model — one that prioritizes clean water and soil, healthy communities, peace, dignity, and self-determination.