Research & Commentary

Fast food workers went on strike last week in several major cities, including New York. The strike was a bigger version of the November 2012 fast food strikes covered by Sarah Jaffe for...

A rather ruthless billionaire has grabbed one of the world's great newspapers. But you don't have to be a high-tech plutocrat, the paper's previous regime has demonstrated, to help make...

Detroit’s property tax base, diminished and badly-assessed, could still fund a renewal if Michigan would only read its history and find the political will. By Mason Gaffney and Polly Cleveland...

An insider is spilling the beans on the great unsaid in charitable circles: You can't ignore wealth's maldistribution and hope to fix an unequal world. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_5571"...

Who’s going to emerge as the real winner once the ‘IRS scandal’ dust settles? Only the awesomely affluent among us benefit when we have an underfunded — and ineffective —...

Jobs have been pretty hard to come by in the 21st century. Employment growth was sluggish from 2000 through 2007. Then the recession struck. There are about a million fewer...

It was the perfect “natural experiment:” in April 1992, New Jersey’s minimum-wage was scheduled to rise from $4.25 an hour to $5.05, while neighboring Pennsylvania’s minimum wage remained unchanged. Princeton...

To protect our health, we’ve learned to have our ‘vital signs’ taken. But no visit to a doctor’s office can tell us the vital signs that determine where on earth...

Since 1970 income inequality has been rising across the developed countries of the world. In the United States, income inequality declined for a century until 1970.  Since roughly 1968-1973 inequality...

The 'market' isn't working for working people. The rich have rigged the rules. We ought to keep trying, of course, to reduce the resulting inequality. But why not, unions are...