Using Renewables to Reduce Inequality
A new report explains how states and cities can use renewable portfolio standards and shared solar programs to reduce the power of fossil fuel corporations and lift up low-income households....
Wealth Concentration
The Case for a Universal Basic Income
A former labor leader is urging unconventional political alliances in support of public policy to buffer workers from the coming automation age.
Local Climate and Inequality Solutions
Renew Oregon is advancing innovative climate justice proposals, building on a legislative victory to expand the state's use of renewable energy, with strong benefits for low-income consumers. Hundreds of thousands...
How Will French Workers Vote?
As a leftist presidential candidate surges in the polls with a hard line on combating inequality, the man once considered a strong frontrunner is struggling to win support beyond elites....
A Piketty ‘Inflection Point’ Heads Up
The concentration of America’s wealth may be reaching a point where any further gains for the top 1 percent must literally come at the direct expense of everyone else. The...
A Flying Public Finally Erupts
America’s top airline execs have every incentive to treat average passengers as cattle and chattel. Could United's now infamous aisle drag upset their gravy train?
Workers’ Shrinking Piece of Global Pie
New research points to globalization as a key driver of labor's declining share of national income, particularly in developing countries.
The Racial Wealth Gap in 60 Seconds
Want to understand today’s black-white wealth gap in the United States? Don't miss Inequality.org contributor Antonio Moore’s new one minute tutorial. Want to see more from Antonio Moore? His YouTube...
How To End The Era of Toxic Inequality
A new book explores how America’s wealth gap destroys mobility, deepens the racial divide, and endangers our future. This reflection on Toxic Inequality, the new book by Brandeis University scholar Thomas...