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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

When the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced it had settled its “dark patterns” lawsuit against Amazon last month, leaders at the antitrust and consumer protection watchdog celebrated. “Today, we ...

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 ...

Two months ago, Sloan Meek – a disability rights advocate with cerebral palsy – took the stage at a rally protesting the Medicaid cuts in Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.” Meek warned how $1 ...

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 ...