Indiana: A Snapshot of Inequality
Republican Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence calls Indiana ‘a state that works.’ The facts tell a different story. Let me start with a few facts that should “afflict the comfortable”...
Research & Commentary
From academics to activists, thoughtful people worldwide are focusing their attention on economic inequality as never before.
A Soiled Picture of Art and Labor
The deeply unequal art world’s current economic model simply isn’t working, as the story of one public art effort demonstrates quite clearly. [caption id="attachment_12547" align="alignright" width="300"] Washington, D.C.’s Canal Park...
Why Are We Failing Our Caregivers?
Family caregivers and home care workers provide our nation’s backbone of care. Their work needs to be valued. The caretakers for the fortunes of America’s rich take home a pretty...
Brazil: Elites Behind President’s Ouster
The right wing that conspired openly against an elected president’s mandate insists on a wild capitalism and does not accept that black, poor, and indigenous people, women, homosexuals, and slum...
Obama’s TPP Would Widen the Divide
A Mexican fair trade activist offers lessons from the North American Free Trade Agreement about the likely impacts of the Trans-Pacific deal on inequality. After the November election, all eyes...
The Wall Street CEO Bonus Loophole
If elected, Hillary Clinton would have the chance to fix her husband's CEO pay policy mistake, which costs taxpayers billions of dollars per year and perpetuates the reckless Wall Street bonus...
A Call for Equitable Development
In Baltimore, activists are urging city officials to move beyond ‘tax increment financing’ that privileges billionaires at public expense. By Allie Busching [caption id="attachment_12394" align="alignright" width="350"] Baltimore, one affordable-housing activist...
CEO Pay Reform Scorecard
An updated scorecard from the Institute for Policy Studies rates recent CEO pay reforms, as well as other reforms pending in Congress and a few promising initiatives not yet on...
Domestic Workers Win Big In Illinois
The National Domestic Workers Alliance and their allies have overcome industry opposition to win labor protections for domestic workers in seven states.
Where Has Money for Schools Gone?
New government spending data could reveal how tax breaks for big businesses leave K-12 school funding out to dry. As fall approaches, millions of moms and dads are scrambling to...