Racial Equality

While the violence evoked memories of the city’s ugly racist history, CWA's new union president sees progress on civil rights and economic justice.

Sixty years without substantially narrowing the racial wealth divide is a policy failure.

America’s farmers are aging. To avoid a crisis, we need to lower the economic barriers of entry for young farmers.

While our federal government backtracks, state and local lawmakers are increasingly taking action to repair racial divides through policies designed to address racial inequality.

The fossil fuel industry and other corporations are funding the campaign against responsible investing (ESG) to protect profits at the expense of workers and our environment.

New fact sheets by the Poor People’s Campaign and the Institute for Policy Studies reveal disturbing data on systemic racism, poverty and inequality, ecological devastation, and militarism in every U.S. state. 

One state’s “Baby Bonds” program should be a model for the whole country.

The private banking industry either can’t or won’t do what needs to be done to stop preying on vulnerable people.

The United States' astronomical levels of economic inequality are poised to become further entrenched in the coming years.