From academics to activists, thoughtful people worldwide are focusing their attention on economic inequality as never before.
Racism is evolving into an insidious form of quiet economic subjugation. By Paul Buchheit [caption id="attachment_9199" align="alignright" width="300"] Credit: AllenBWest.com[/caption] In 1931 the New Republic reported on a lynching in...
The Pope's new encyclical illuminates a concept we should all get to know better: disparate impact.
Here are five key quotes from the encyclical that will shake up the global climate debate. By Janet Redman Pope Francis just released an “encyclical,” a fancy word for a...
The residents of Tchula, Mississippi live with deep poverty that stems from slavery and Jim Crow. By Scott Rodd [caption id="attachment_9145" align="alignright" width="300"] Credit: Scott Rodd, ThinkProgress[/caption] Andrew sat a...
Millions of Americans are working full-time for such little pay that they must depend on the safety net. By Paul Buchheit [caption id="attachment_9168" align="alignright" width="300"] Credit: Ineteconomics[/caption] It's a vicious...
The most pernicious form of inequality—political inequality—is one of the least discussed. By Sheila Suess Kennedy [caption id="attachment_9133" align="alignright" width="300"] Strict voter ID laws are erecting unnecessary barriers to the...
Bernie Sanders' candidacy has the potential to bust up common mythmaking about the free market. By Claire Goldstene [caption id="attachment_9118" align="alignright" width="300"] Bernie Sanders' campaign is delivering sorely needed truths...
Elderly Americans are a major victim of today's growing inequality. By Paul Buchheit [caption id="attachment_9091" align="alignright" width="300"] From 2005 to 2009, the percentage of seniors in America falling into poverty...
U.S. CEOs sometimes make more in an hour than their workers can make in a year. At Mondragón, one of Spain’s largest enterprises, no execs can make more in an hour than their workers make in a day.
The most financially vulnerable Americans are falling into the Debt Trap. By Larry Checco Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched his Great Society, a set of domestic programs...
