Poverty & Wealth
Editors' Picks
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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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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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In Baltimore, Police Thuggery Is the Real Violence Problem
Apr 28, 2015An unarmed black person is six times more likely to be killed by police than is a white person who carries a weapon.
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A Test for Hillary Clinton: Obama's Trade Deals
Apr 28, 2015Opposition to granting the president fast-track authority is growing among Democrats. The former secretary of state could seize the moment.
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Pity the Purist in the GOP Primaries (A Tear for Bobby Jindal)
Apr 27, 2015To win the presidential election will require selective dissents and little blasphemies.
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What We Know Now
Apr 27, 2015Twenty-five years later, the world has changed in crucial ways that factor into our thinking.
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How Progressive Policies Can Lead to a Democratic Majority
Apr 24, 2015The new American electorate could offer a durable majority--if Democrats address economic needs with progressive policies, not centrist ones.
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Senior Class: America's Unequal Retirement
Apr 24, 2015One of the cruelest manifestations of widening inequality happens in life's final quarter.
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Greece on the Razor's Edge
Apr 22, 2015Bailing out Greece is politically impossible—it's also increasingly necessary.
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Obama's Trade Agreements Are a Gift to Corporations
Apr 20, 2015Trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership are about dismantling critical regulations on health, safety, labor, and the environment.
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Faculty Join Fast Food in the Fight for $15
Apr 16, 2015On campuses across the country, adjunct professors are starting to organize against rock-bottom pay and tenuous job security.
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Calls From Home
Apr 16, 2015In a region dominated by coal companies and privatized prisons, activist Amelia Kirby charts a new path for her community.
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Federal Contract Workers and the Fight For a Living Wage
Apr 15, 2015How your tax dollars are creating millions of underpaid jobs—and how workers are fighting back.
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Why California's Drought Is the Nation's Problem
Apr 13, 2015Rising food prices, unsafe drinking water—climate change will only make things worse unless stronger measures are taken.
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Today's GOP: The Party of Jefferson Davis -- Not Lincoln
Apr 10, 2015If you think the Civil War is over, think again.
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The Opportunity Dodge
Apr 09, 2015It's an empty promise—because the chance to thrive will never be good amid great inequalities.
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Brewing Human Rights Crisis in Baltimore as City Threatens Mass Water Shutoffs
Apr 08, 2015Residents warn move is part of global trend towards the 'commodification of our basic needs.'
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