Racial Equality

We're now going on 7 years since the 2008 financial crisis made inequality a hot topic for Americans. Looking back on 2014, it's easy to see inequality remains a top...

As protesters march through our cities, a new study dramatizes that at the heart of our racially fractured society is a hidden system of racial wealth inequalities. The marches in...

The reality of poor Americans' lives is far more complex than cultural stereotypes suggest. By Sheila Suess Kennedy [caption id="attachment_7539" align="alignright" width="166"] Despite evidence to the contrary, the myth of...

Though Republicans often feign nostalgia for the 1950s, they are actually more nostalgic for the Gilded Age. By Claire Goldstene [caption id="attachment_7472" align="alignright" width="300"] At least since Ronald Reagan, the...

Wealthy investors have made poor neighborhoods into a highly lucrative enterprise for the 1 percent. By Brett Williams For the last three years I’ve been following young people born in...

Genuine democracy not only includes everyone, it's good for everyone. By Sheila Suess Kennedy Paul Krugman has a knack for telling it like it is. His recent column in The...

A new G.I. Bill would go a long way towards making the lives of poor Americans—and by extension our nation—better.  By Sheila Suess Kennedy There are a number of policy...

The Dizzying Racial Wealth Divide The billionaires that make up the “Forbes 400” list have as much wealth as the entire African-American population of the U.S., over 41 million people,...

The wealth possessed by America's 400 richest billionaires now equals the collective net worth of all the nation's African-American households. By Bob Lord [caption id="attachment_6053" align="alignright" width="300"] Dr. Martin Luther...