As a war on immigrants and the working rages in Washington, state governments should use every tool at their disposal to ...

Social decency, most people agree, demands a minimum wage, a floor that defines a minimum income for all those who labor. Does social decency also demand a maximum wage, an income ceiling? The newly ...

Only a relatively few of America’s deep pockets — like the oilmen H.L. Hunt and Bud Adams, another of the AFL’s original ...

In the 1920s, the U.S. economy boomed, for the rich, and then busted the nation into the Great Depression. Will Trump II and ...

Artificial intelligence is already exacerbating harms against low-income people. We need to fight back, together.

The Pandora Papers, a massive expose about the secret shell games and tax avoidance schemes of the world’s ultra-wealthy, has just hit headlines around the globe. See initial coverage here in The ...

We won progressive taxes in our state by showing people just how unjust our tax code was. Other states can follow.

Amazon workers at the JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island shocked the world in 2022 when they voted to form the first American union at the e-commerce giant. A new documentary — Union — gives a behind-the ...

This April 15 Tax Day, America’s billionaires are toasting you, the ordinary taxpayer. That’s because you’re the one picking up the tab for our nation’s ailing infrastructure of roads, bridges, and ...

The global trend towards extreme wealth and income concentration has dramatically strengthened the economic and political power of those individuals — overwhelmingly male — at the top. In the United ...

The new year has begun with old news: The world is continuing to become colossally more unequal — with the United States leading the way. In 2024, wealth trackers at Bloomberg have just reported in a ...