Rural Inequality vs. Grassroots Land Reform: Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement Turns Forty
Rural land concentration compounds inequality and threatens democracy. Through grassroots land reform, this movement offers hope.
Wealth Concentration
The Child Tax Credit Changed My Life. Lawmakers Have a Chance to Bring It Back.
Poverty is a policy choice by lawmakers with warped priorities. Now they have a chance to choose better, if only modestly.
Has the USA Really Become Vastly More Unequal?
Most certainly yes. But apologists for a top-heavy America have some new ammunition.
Davos Elites Talk About Rebuilding Trust. The People Talk of System Change.
We will win economic justice when people power becomes stronger than those driving and benefitting from the status quo.
New Independent Contractor Rule Can ‘Help Protect Workers’
Bosses who misclassify workers as independent contractors can deny them fair pay and rights. A new Department of Labor rule seeks to end that practice.
The Richest 1 Percent Own a Greater Share of the Stock Market Than Ever Before
Baby bonds are one effective strategy for addressing the fact that only 1 percent of stock market wealth is owned by the bottom half of households.
How Redlining’s Legacies Demand New Policy Action
Redlining has inscribed unjust boundaries in our cities and worsened inequality. It's time for bold policy solutions.
A Working Class Victory on Colombia’s Horizon
An advancing labor reform bill could increase overtime pay, expand social security for delivery workers, and strengthen workplace rights.
Donor-Advised Funds Now Consume a Quarter of Individual Charitable Giving
The National Philanthropic Trust’s latest report on DAFs reveals just how rapidly they’re growing.