Special Report

The recession is wiping out the jobs, homes, and dreams of the African American middle class.

It’s time we started growing the economy and stopped shrinking the middle class.

Our national economic fortune depends on reclaiming a credible role for large-scale public investment.

We need a better-educated citizenry, but the cure for increasing inequality lies elsewhere.

Can organized labor lead a movement to restore broad economic security? It’s hard to imagine who else will.

If progressives want a winning theme that the right can’t match, this is it.

The dream of a modestly middle-class retirement is fading.

Saving middle-class America will require a radically different conception of trade and the national interest.

In 2010, disaffected voters didn’t embrace the Republican vision. They looked in vain for the Democratic one.

A pilot program in Oakland, California, combines community policing with social services and gets at-risk young men off the street.