Historical Background

People fight harder, Franklin Roosevelt understood, when the rich don’t get richer.

We only build — and sustain — more equal societies when we confront the economic dynamics that generate inequality in the first place.

In deeply unequal societies, real gains for working people never come easy.

The Vanderbilts, once America’s richest family, have become a handy punching bag for the guardians of our new Gilded Age.