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Dean Baker: As long as the wealthy can focus public debate on retirement benefits for ordinary workers, they can keep the focus away from the policies that allow them …

It's time to end America's oligonomy by rolling back the Reagan tax cuts and enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust act, so that corporations can't grow out-of-control and amass endless piles …

Once hailed as the “Great Equalizer,” public higher education today has arguably become a driver of inequality.

Let's learn from our not-so-distant past and share the gold. New technologies don't have to bring us new inequalities.

Regardless of a police officer's own ethnicity or socioeconomic background, it is the role that ultimately represents a virtual arm of white supremacy and class oppression.

Mayor de Blasio pointed out that the children who were being targeted to give up their current facilities to make way for a charter co-location happen to matter, too.

The new advice on income inequality will likely be received skeptically in many corners, though the fund is giving the findings its full backing.

The Pentagon remains unaudited, which will remain the case even after it meets its overdue and embarrassingly modest financial management goals - which by the way, it will do …

Free-trade agreements have not delivered promised protections to workers, as the case of Guatemalan sweatshop labor illustrates.

What is the social impact of cop booster program “Chicago PD”? What audience - and what ends - does it serve?