The new city agency intends to connect workers who want to unionize with resources and organizing contacts, and use worker stories of exploitation to inform policy.
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Why Would New York City Elect Anyone but a Socialist?
A new survey documents the city’s towering levels of inequality.
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Will Trump Accounts Close the Racial Wealth Gap, or Worsen It?
The investment accounts for newborns have been lauded as an innovative wealth-building program. But they might exacerbate economic inequalities instead of remedying them.
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AWOL in the Class War
Americans realize they’ve lost power and income to the very rich. Too many Democrats, even too many unions, have yet to go to war for them.
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Trump and Bernie Agree: Let’s Own AI!
One’s a narcissist, the other’s a socialist, but there’s room for all in this improbable coming together.
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How Inequality Killed the Affordable American Car
Given the upward redistribution of wealth and income, it now pays a company to sell just to the rich.
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Notes for Next Time
My generation got a very good economic deal. We need to restore opportunities to our children and grandchildren, or there will be more recruits to MAGA.
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A K-Shaped Economy Requires K-Shaped Taxes
Wealth tax skeptics either fail to notice the massive upward redistribution of wealth, income, and political power, benefit from it, or fear challenging it.
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Billionaire Wealth Has Doubled So Far This Decade
An estimate of a new wealth tax proposal shows that it would generate twice as much revenue as it did when it was first introduced in 2021.
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More States Are Taxing the Ultra-Rich—Washington Is the Latest
As inequality grows, states are stepping up where the federal government hasn’t. ‘It’s a movement,’ says Patriotic Millionaires’ Chuck Collins.