Poverty & Wealth
Editors' Picks
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Has Child Care Policy Finally Come of Age?
May 22, 2015The Democrats may now be turning to a long-stalled agenda for working parents.
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Race or Class? The Future of Affirmative Action on the College Campus
Jun 22, 2014Focusing college-student recruitment on poor neighborhoods can overlook middle-class African Americans entitled to affirmative action.
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How the American South Drives the Low-Wage Economy
Jul 06, 2015Just as in the 1850s (with the Dred Scott decision and the Fugitive Slave Act), the Southern labor system (with low pay and no unions) is wending its way north.
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The Making of Ferguson: How Decades of Hostile Policy Created a Powder Keg
Oct 13, 2014Long before the shooting of Michael Brown, official racial-isolation policies primed Ferguson for this summer’s events.
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Betrayers of the Dream
Jul 12, 2015How sleazy for-profit colleges disproportionately targeted black students.
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Labor at a Crossroads: The Seeds of a New Movement
Oct 30, 2014SEIU’s David Rolf—virtuoso organizer and mastermind of Seattle’s $15 minimum wage campaign—says labor needs radically new ways to champion worker interests.
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Black America's Promised Land: Why I Am Still a Racial Optimist
Nov 10, 2014Hope and pessimism have defined two traditions of American thinking about race. Fully acknowledging recent setbacks, the author makes the case for the tradition of hope.
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What to Do When 'I Do' Is Done
Feb 05, 2015LGBT activists and funders are debating the movement’s post-marriage priorities.
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A Needless Default
Feb 08, 2015The administration’s foreclosure relief program was designed to help bankers, not homeowners. That disgrace will haunt Democrats.
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Atlantic Surging, Virginia Sinking
Feb 23, 2015Rising sea level in Norfolk threatens the town, the Navy, and a state in denial.
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The Political Roots of Widening Inequality
Apr 28, 2015The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn’t technology or globalization. It’s the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.
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How Gilded Ages End
Apr 29, 2015Protecting democracy from oligarchic dominance is, once again, a central imperative of American politics.
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The Wealth Problem
Apr 30, 2015Aspiring to own a home and pursue an education are quintessentially American ideals. It's time to make those dreams accessible again.
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Black Lives Matter Plunges into the Affordable Housing Crisis
Sep 02, 2016As the movement branches into economic justice, a protest in Cambridge, Massachusetts, led to a public conversation about the city’s housing policies.
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Q&A: Will Colleges Support Debt-Free Higher Education?
Sep 02, 2016Now the president of a liberal arts college in Maryland, former Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairwoman Sheila Bair discusses whether college-for-all proposals would really help students.
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The Great Paradox
Aug 31, 2016Arlie Hochschild’s new book grapples with The Great Paradox: Why is hatred of government most intense among people who need government services most?
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As Union Membership Declines, Organized Labor Focuses on Nonunion Workers
Aug 30, 2016A new report links the drop in union membership with the rise in income inequality. But labor activists are finding new ways to help workers.
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How the Charter School Lobby Is Changing the Democratic Party
Aug 30, 2016In cities and states nationwide, centrist billionaires are working to unseat progressive Democrats.
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Milwaukee Riots Fed by Decades of African American Economic Insecurity
Aug 22, 2016The recent unrest in Milwaukee spotlights the deindustrialization and hyper-segregation that has devastated the city’s communities of color.
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Blue Cities Battle Red States
Aug 22, 2016As cities have moved left and states have moved right, the conflicts between them have escalated.
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Papa’s Not a Rolling Stone: Low-Income Men and Their Children
Aug 19, 2016Kids benefit when their dads make more time for them. Try doing it while juggling two or three minimum-wage jobs.
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Want to Expand Social Security? Look North
Aug 18, 2016Democrats who have started a discussion about improving retirement security in the U.S. would do well to take a page out of Canada’s book.
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How America Grew -- and Grew Unequal
Aug 17, 2016Today’s inequality has more to do with historical accident and political power than economic efficiency.
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Q&A: How Mortgage Lenders Broke the Law and Got Away With It
Aug 16, 2016Financial journalist David Dayen talks about the 2008 fiscal crisis and his new book, Chain of Title, which tells the story of three average Americans who faced foreclosure and fought back.
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Closing the Racial Wealth Gap
Aug 15, 2016The goal of wealth equality in America is a long way off.
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Black Organizations Say No -- or at Least, Slow Down -- to Charter Schools
Aug 08, 2016The NAACP and the Movement for Black Lives cast a cold eye on education reform.
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Glass Ceiling and Class Ceiling: Can Hillary Smash Both?
Aug 02, 2016To win in November, Clinton will need to put pocketbook issues front and center.
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As Maine Goes
Jul 18, 2016Governor Paul LePage is a preview of a President Donald Trump.
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