Racial Equality

So now we know: A broken tail light can get you killed in America. By Karen Dolan The situation that led to the alleged murder of Walter L. Scott by...

The Fight for $15 campaign has grown into a broad-based social movement. This past Wednesday, tens of thousands of low-wage workers in more than 200 cities across the U.S. demonstrated...

Attacks on women's reproductive health are ultimately a war on poor women. By Claire Goldstene [caption id="attachment_8730" align="alignright" width="300"] Statewide campaigns to end abortion have led to shutting down women's...

Racial segregation dominated the American residential landscape for generations. We can’t afford, suggests the research of Stanford’s Sean Reardon, to let economic segregation have anywhere near as long a run....

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...