Policy

Alperovitz challenges us to think past today’s daily scandals to consider exactly what kind of society we want to live in.

The Great Recession, a new study shows, has driven the sharpest decline in reported happiness since researchers started collecting consistent data.

With national policy likely to compound the income and wealth gap in the coming years, states and localities are fighting back.  Across the country, local jurisdictions aren’t waiting for federal...

A new campaign is rising up to "Trump-proof Seattle" with innovative city-level solutions to the deep problems created by the administration's proposed budget cuts. President Donald Trump’s first proposed federal budget...

A new book offers serious solutions to the deep divide in access to affordable early child care and education. The patchwork of programs currently in place to help parents balance...

The data is in: Shared growth, not top-heavy growth, helps the poor. Two months ago, in Equality for Taxi Drivers and Surgeons, I challenged the logic of Illinois professor Deirdre...

The new project Resist365 is taking aim at the inequality-expanding agenda of the new Trump administration — and inspiring a new generation of progressive leadership. In the wake of the...

New study shows growing divide in Texas’s most populous county. The world knows Houston as a major hub for oil and gas and the home of America’s space program. What...

The leader of the British Labour Party has just outlined an ambitious set of proposals for shearing the incomes of the ultra rich down to more democratic proportions.