A new survey documents the city’s towering levels of inequality.
Poverty & Wealth
Posted inTAP
How to Stanch the Rising Cost of Everything
With government debt bringing higher interest rates, it’s time to get serious about taxing the rich.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Trump’s ‘Golden Age’? Well, Yes—for Dollar Stores
Sales are up at the modern-day bargain basements, as more financially stressed Americans are compelled to shop there.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Gary, Indiana, Is America’s Latest Climate Victim
This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.
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The Democrats’ On-Again, Off-Again Class Politics
After World War II, Dems lost touch with their New Deal roots. Now they’re coming back home.
Posted inBooks
A World From the Inside
Theo Baker is exposed to the inner sanctum of how Silicon Valley makes its anointed fellow travelers unspeakably rich.
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The California Left and the Wealth Tax
The absence of left unity for the ballot measure short-circuits any progressive agenda.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Dorothy Day: Saint Radical
The incredible life and times of the Catholic who served the poor and gave hell to everyone else
Posted inEconomic Policy
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.
Posted inWorking in America
A Great Economy Unless You Have to Work for a Living
The gap between investment income and work income has never been so glaring.