Middle Class Squeeze

In a year when the majority of people struggled to get by, CEOs have only gotten richer. Now they are taking every opportunity to further pad their own pockets.

Better wages and health care may always face headwinds in Washington, but unions are striking to win them directly.

Over the next two years, they will study the problem of economic disparity and develop policy solutions.

Polling questions that isolate ‘inequality’ do no justice to the social ills that ail us.