Poverty & Wealth
Editors' Picks
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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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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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Q&A: The Pragmatic Populism of Tom Perriello
Mar 14, 2017Former Congressman Tom Perriello makes the case for why he’s got the “insider pragmatism and outsider populism” to win Virginia’s gubernatorial race.
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Q&A: Democrats Must Deliver an Economic Message
Mar 10, 2017These pollsters say Democrats must boil their menu of economic policies down to the kind of simple slogan that advertisers call a “reason to believe.”
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The Banks Are Even Worse
Mar 06, 2017Storefront payday lenders and check-cashers are all that tens of millions of Americans have.
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How States Turn K-12 Scholarships Into Money-Laundering Schemes
Mar 03, 2017“School choice” happy talk obscures how privatizing education dollars allows wealthy taxpayers to scam the government.
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How the Democrats Can Hijack the Tax Reform Debate
Feb 23, 2017Just in case they want an economic policy, here’s one they can win on.
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Kevin Brady: Trickle Downer of the Week
Feb 23, 2017The House Ways and Means chair wants American consumers to pay for massive corporate tax cuts.
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Republicans Moving Fast to Block Retirement Security
Feb 21, 2017Congressional Republicans have set out to undo an Obama administration rule that makes it easier for states and cities to expand retirement options for private-sector workers.
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Beyond Resistance: How Democrats Can Win Back Working Families
Feb 15, 2017To counter Donald Trump, Democrats must go beyond opposition to deliver policies that materially improve the lives of working families.
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Gary Cohn: Trickle Downer of the Week
Feb 09, 2017In which Goldman Sachs deregulates itself—and tells you it’s for your own good.
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Will Crumbling School Buildings Get a Piece of the Infrastructure Pie?
Feb 08, 2017Public education advocates are hoping that Donald Trump’s infrastructure plan will help renovate the nation’s dilapidated schools, but lobbying for school repairs is never easy.
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Dismantling Dodd-Frank -- And More
Feb 06, 2017Candidate Trump promised to take on Wall Street. As deregulator-in-chief, he will be Wall Street’s best friend.
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Republican Governors: Trickle Downers of the Week
Feb 02, 2017GOP leaders in the states are using regressive tax policy to address massive revenue shortfalls.
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Three Reasons Trickle-Down Tax Cuts Don’t Work
Jan 31, 2017But they’re a great way of making the rich richer, which is why Trump is proposing them.
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It’s the Poverty, Stupid, Not Trump’s Imagined Carnage
Jan 27, 2017While President Donald Trump continues his jeremiad against urban life, the nation’s mayors see poverty as their number one economic problem.
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Trump’s Labor Nominee Gets Rich on Taxpayer’s Dime
Jan 24, 2017Andy Puzder oversees a fast-food empire that’s fueled by low-wage labor—but the public subsidizes that low pay in a big way.
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