Poverty & Wealth
Editors' Picks
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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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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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International Tax Evasion: What Can Be Done?
May 26, 2016Multinationals save hundreds of billions of dollars by offshoring income and manipulating their books — and it's perfectly legal.
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When Affordable Housing Bypasses the Poor
May 19, 2016New research suggests affordable housing can create segregation not only within and between communities, but also within the subsidized housing system itself.
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Can the Working Family Work in America?
May 17, 2016America still hasn’t adjusted to family realities in the 21st century. Here’s what needs to be done and why we need to do it.
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Confronting the Parasite Economy
May 16, 2016Why low-wage work is bad for business—and all of us.
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The Great Foreclosure Fraud
May 16, 2016When millions of families lost their homes to foreclosure in the Great Recession, a nurse, a car dealership worker and a forensic expert blew the whistle on mortgage industry abuses.
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How to Fix Social Security? Expand It
May 12, 2016Proposals abound to overhaul the Social Security system via means-testing, raising the retirement age, or price adjustments. But the real solution to a fairer, more stable retirement system is Social Security expansion.
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Hedging Education
May 06, 2016How hedge funders spurred the pro-charter political network.
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Harnessing the Power of the New Working Class
May 04, 2016If the new proletariat starts identifying as a class, it could transform politics.
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Chobani and the Problem with Benevolent Bosses
May 03, 2016Banking on CEOs' goodwill is not a substitute for the lasting gains that can be made through worker organizing.
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Kildee: Michigan Austerity Policies Doomed Flint
Apr 29, 2016Anti-government mania is to blame for the city’s contaminated-water crisis, says Flint’s congressional representative.
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How to Redistribute Wealth—Without the Guillotine
Apr 28, 2016We can't just tax billionaires’ paychecks. We should tax the wealth they've already amassed.
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What Good Are Hedge Funds?
Apr 25, 2016Hedge funds make big returns by manipulating markets in ways that are illegal for small investors. Remind us: Why are they permitted?
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Our Beleaguered Planet
Apr 21, 2016The interaction of global climate change, poverty, affluence, and overpopulation
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One Student's Fight for Clean Air in Baltimore
Apr 20, 2016For her work against the proposed Fairfield incinerator in South Baltimore, Destiny Watford has been awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize.
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Evicted? San Francisco Says Not So Fast
Apr 15, 2016Amid an overheated housing market that has sent San Francisco evictions soaring, the city has stepped in to protect schoolchildren and teachers from landing on the street.
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