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

Absent in the raging debate over trade policy, tariffs, and foreign aid is a truth about the economy that those of us in the Global South know all too well: American corporations and their billionaire ...

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

In 2024, the Journal noted, the wealth of America’s top 0.00001 percent — our 19 richest billionaires — increased by $1 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

As a co-editor of Inequality.org, I get a lot of fan mail (and a few complaints). Greg B. recently wrote in, “None of my problems exist as a result of someone else being a billionaire.” My response to ...

The following is written testimony prepared for a March 17, 2021 Senate Budget Committee hearing on “The Income and Wealth Inequality Crisis in America.” Thank you, Chairman Sanders, Ranking Member ...

How many people in India are going hungry? Researchers working on the Global Hunger Index are currently tracking 125 nations across the world. Exactly 110 of those nations, those researchers reported ...

In mid-September the Census Bureau released its latest report on Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States, current through 2011. Poverty as officially measured, the Census ...