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Wealth Concentration


Swimming Against the Loan Sharks

July 1, 2016

by Liz Ryan Murray


A proposal to crack down on predatory lending has sparked a showdown between the payday industry and activists fighting to end the debt trap.   Federal regulators have proposed new...

Brexit: Eye of the Maelstrom

June 27, 2016

by Thomas Palley


Clinton should respond to the British crisis by moving beyond critical rhetoric and adopting serious remedies that tackle neoliberalism’s legacy of inequality, economic insecurity, and loss of hope. In years...

The Spanish Left’s Anti-Inequality Plan

June 27, 2016

by Oscar Reyes


Despite disappointing election results, Podemos party leader Pablo Iglesias has had an impact on his country’s political landscape and vows to continue to fight to reverse extreme inequality. After weaker...

America’s Working Poor

June 24, 2016

by Chuck Collins


A new study dramatizes the struggles of low-wage workers and provides a precise analysis of who these workers are and where they live.

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