As the big caucus night approaches, activists are working to help low-income residents overcome multiple barriers to participation
About Inequality
In a Pandemic, Service Workers Need Paid Sick Leave — Now
It’s well past time we joined the civilized world by giving workers federally mandated, paid sick leave. Our health and our lives depend on it.
It’s well past time we joined the civilized world by giving workers federally mandated, paid sick leave. Our health and our lives depend on it.
Should Zoom Be a Public Utility?
Online platforms like zoom and skype have become basic, public necessities as our lives are upended by the coronavirus. Should they be nationalized?
Online platforms like zoom and skype have become basic, public necessities as our lives are upended by the coronavirus. Should they be nationalized?
The Government Needs to Act Now to Save Lives — and Build a More Equal System
Medical supplies are disproportionately available to the wealthy. To fix these inequities, we need an immediate, massive, humanitarian response to coronavirus from the federal government.
Medical supplies are disproportionately available to the wealthy. To fix these inequities, we need an immediate, massive, humanitarian response to coronavirus from the federal government.
Coronavirus Proves It: We Need Medicare for All
Health care rationing isn’t what awaits us in a single-payer system. It’s happening now in our failed for-profit system.
Health care rationing isn’t what awaits us in a single-payer system. It’s happening now in our failed for-profit system.
Dueling Wall Street Taxes
Whenever the push for taxing Wall Street speculation starts to build some serious steam, the Obama administration dusts off their proposal for a big bank fee.
Whenever the push for taxing Wall Street speculation starts to build some serious steam, the Obama administration dusts off their proposal for a big bank fee.
Top 5 Inequality Ideas in the SOTU
The President's speech included policy proposals that would have a big impact on reducing inequality.
The President’s speech included policy proposals that would have a big impact on reducing inequality.
Understanding the Trust Fund Loophole
The white house is going after the tax code provision that lets the super rich avoid billions of dollars of taxes on their wheeling and dealing
The White House is going after the tax code provision that lets the super rich avoid billions of dollars of taxes on their wheeling and dealing
A Blue-Ribbon Inequality Blindspot
To save our democracy, a major new report on our grand divide never gets around to recognizing, we need to contemplate our plutocracy.
To save our democracy, a major new report on our grand divide never gets around to recognizing, we need to contemplate our plutocracy.
America’s Rich: Poor Have It Easy
The poll results that are not the least bit surprising
The poll results that are not the least bit surprising
Putting a Price-Tag on Inequality
How much does inequality cost the average American family?
How much does inequality cost the average American family?
The Ever-Shrinking Trillion Dollar Club
A handy yardstick for gauging how rapidly our wealth is concentrating.
A handy yardstick for gauging how rapidly our wealth is concentrating.
House Dems Push CEO Pay Reform
Right out of the blocks, House Democrats are pushing a tax reform in the 114th Congress that responds to public concerns over the persistently wide gaps between CEO and worker pay.
Right out of the blocks, House Democrats are pushing a tax reform in the 114th Congress that responds to public concerns over the persistently wide gaps between CEO and worker pay.
Nit-Picking Piketty
Conservative economists tried to embarrass Thomas Piketty at the American Economic Association annual meeting in Boston. They ended up embarrassing only themselves.
Conservative economists tried to embarrass Thomas Piketty at the American Economic Association annual meeting in Boston. They ended up embarrassing only themselves.
The Complications of Global Inequality
Don't let inequality apologists spin global numbers to dismiss concerns over our top-heavy economic order.
Don’t let inequality apologists spin global numbers to dismiss concerns over our top-heavy economic order.
To End Extreme Poverty, Let’s Try Ending Extreme Wealth
The world’s wealthy gathered in the Alps last week to discuss how to ‘solve’ our world’s toughest problems. The biggest? That, suggests one anti-poverty outfit, may be their fortunes.
The world’s wealthy gathered in the Alps last week to discuss how to ‘solve’ our world’s toughest problems. The biggest? That, suggests one anti-poverty outfit, may be their fortunes.