The Inequality Crisis Hiding Behind High Utility Bills
Low-income people and communities of color are disproportionately energy insecure. Here’s how energy efficiency policy can address the divide.
Policy
Amazon’s Worst Bargain Yet
The retail behemoth wants your local government's business, but there's a hidden cost to low prices: Local businesses get shut out.
New Currencies for a New Economy
To build local power, activists in Bristol are taking aim at the root of all evils: money.
How to Level the Playing Field for Workers — Even With Unions Hurting
A federal jobs and income guarantee could protect workers the way unions once did.
How Randomistas Can Help Fight Inequality
The smartest way to create meaningful social policy is with a healthy amount of skepticism.
Salvadorans Protest Renewed Attempts to Privatize Water Resources
Anti-privatization organizers demand the government recognize that water is a right, not a commodity.
We Subsidize the Wrong Kind of Agriculture
We should be supporting the small farmers who sell at farmers markets, not the corporate giants that hurt our health and environment.
New York, New York, What a Less than Wonderful Town
Any city — any society — that lets the rich keep as much as they can grab is asking for big-time trouble.
For Minimum Decency, a Maximum Wage
Amid rising inequality, a new book argues, the notion of capping income has suddenly become politically plausible.