Organizers Oust Amazon HQ2 from New York
Invest in communities, New Yorkers say, not a labor-busting, tax-avoiding corporation that profits off hate.
Wealth Concentration
Oil Wealth in Senegal: For the Many or the Few?
Income from recently discovered oil and gas deposits must go toward reducing poverty and precariousness.
Blame Long U.S. Election Campaigns on Big Money in Politics
Candidates are bolting out of the gates in part because it takes so much time to raise the mega-millions needed for a presidential run. Can a new law change that?
35 Days Without Pay Show How Precarious Federal Jobs Have Become
Private companies profited off the shutdown as federal workers living paycheck to paycheck – long vilified by the right – struggled to get by.
Let’s Honor Rosa Parks by Continuing Her Struggle for Transit Equity
Barriers to public transit access make it harder for people, particularly people of color and the poor, to get to jobs and schools.
Another Presidential Candidate Who Doesn’t Get It
It’s human nature to be clueless about those with less privilege than you — which for billionaires includes nearly everyone.
Bernie’s Plutocracy Prevention Act
Sanders' new 'For the 99.8% Act' is squarely aimed at preventing the children of today's billionaires from dominating our future democracy, economy, culture and philanthropy.
A Wealth Tax Could Raise Trillions — and Save Our Democracy
Warren’s proposal would galvanize a populist movement that has been pointing out the corrosive impact of concentrated wealth on our body politic.
The Next Shareholder Revolution
Sovereign wealth funds, an emboldened pension fund community, and ethical investor-activists could uncover the egalitarian potential of the stock certificate.