Rural Inequality vs. Grassroots Land Reform: Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement Turns Forty
Rural land concentration compounds inequality and threatens democracy. Through grassroots land reform, this movement offers hope.
Policy
The Child Tax Credit Changed My Life. Lawmakers Have a Chance to Bring It Back.
Poverty is a policy choice by lawmakers with warped priorities. Now they have a chance to choose better, if only modestly.
Davos Elites Talk About Rebuilding Trust. The People Talk of System Change.
We will win economic justice when people power becomes stronger than those driving and benefitting from the status quo.
The Richest 1 Percent Own a Greater Share of the Stock Market Than Ever Before
Baby bonds are one effective strategy for addressing the fact that only 1 percent of stock market wealth is owned by the bottom half of households.
What’s Driving Our Epidemic of Distrust?
The answer we get when we look at our nation’s most distrusted institutions
How Redlining’s Legacies Demand New Policy Action
Redlining has inscribed unjust boundaries in our cities and worsened inequality. It's time for bold policy solutions.
A Working Class Victory on Colombia’s Horizon
An advancing labor reform bill could increase overtime pay, expand social security for delivery workers, and strengthen workplace rights.
Lessons From One Unequal Society to Another
In the 2000s and 2010s Chileans began resolving the Crisis of Representation through protest, song, and dance. Recent political setbacks do not detract from this.
In the World’s Wealthiest Country, Housing Should Be a Human Right and a Community Builder
The focus on zoning, commerce, and profit-maximization does a disservice to the rich sense of community affordable housing can create.