In most of the country, child care is too expensive for families and pays too little for providers. New Mexico is fixing that ...

But even when the shutdown ends, the threat to the nation’s primary nutrition assistance program won’t be over. When the ...

Even though most of us think of healthcare as a human right, the reality is that in the United States the provision of ...

The Republican strategies on taxes and immigration benefit billionaires while leaving the working class behind.

In 2024, the Journal noted, the wealth of America’s top 0.00001 percent — our 19 richest billionaires — increased by $1 trillion, to about $2.6 trillion. Their share of the country’s wealth jumped ...

As a co-editor of Inequality.org, I get a lot of fan mail mixed in with some chiding. Some of the latter came in recently. Noted a Greg B: “None of my problems exist as a result of someone else being ...

The growing movement to crack down on corporations that reward top executives at worker expense. Since 2018, U.S. publicly held corporations have had to annually report the ratio between their CEO and ...

In today’s climate, we are used to seeing polls where public opinion on issues is sharply split along the political axis. Debate is highly polarized, with opposing parties staking out competing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zohran Mamdani’s surprise win in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City was powered by a focus on affordability. One of his more innovative proposals to help address the city’s growing cost ...