Direct cash allows people to solve their own problems and avoid financial crises, which makes all of us safer and helps our ...

After all, the presence of a trillionaire on American soil would certify that we had unquestionably reached an oligarchic ...

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Every time I hear that we as a nation cannot afford something — whether that might be assuring non-toxic water in Jackson and Flint or universal pre-K or an industrial policy with teeth — I have ...

The deep and persistent racial wealth divide will not close without bold, structural reform. It has been created and held in place by public policies that have evolved with time including slavery, Jim ...

Income includes the revenue streams from wages, salaries, interest on a savings account, dividends from shares of stock, rent, and profits from selling something for more than you paid for it. Unlike ...

The sex-trafficking scandal surrounding the late Jeffrey Epstein already has tarnished the reputations of prominent politicians, businessmen, and the British royal family. Now it’s casting a dark ...

In many parts of the world, inequality is spiraling out of control. The basic facts have become depressingly familiar. In the United States, the top 0.1 percent now control about the same amount of ...

We denizens of the 21st century have become somewhat accustomed — inured might be the better word — to the murderous mass violence of modern warfare. We shouldn’t find that at all surprising. The 20th ...

Men dominate the top of the economic summit while women are saddled with higher levels of debt, poverty, and unpaid care work. The global trend towards extreme wealth and income concentration has ...

The growing concentration of wealth and power is distorting philanthropy, which is meant to serve the common good. Wealth and philanthropic power is concentrating in fewer hands, posing an immense ...

President Joe Biden and Congressional progressives have responded to public pressure by putting bold spending proposals on the table that would make our economy more fair, sustainable, and resilient ...