Economy

Inequality deniers will pick up on the bad critique from the Financial Times, and it will become part of what they “know” to be true.

Updates on: The Rhode Island Senate rewarding firms limiting inequality; recession-driven increases in suicide rates; opposition to the Dodd-Frank Act; and more.

Elizabeth Warren and Thomas Piketty discuss why it is that the rich are getting richer, and everybody else is getting poorer, and most importantly, what we can do to …

The first housekeeper elected to the city council in Providence, Rhode Island may be the voice needed to push local officials to raise the minimum wage of hotel workers.

Larry Summers is well on his way to rehabilitating his public image as a brilliant intellectual.

We must see class as a group of human beings who share common interests because they experience common conditions at work.

It's not the Boomers who are stealing from the Millennials, and ruining their future.

Paul Krugman: “I just hope the president sticks to his guns - and the good news is that I'm starting to believe that he will.”

David Cay Johnston stresses that inequality is primarily a result of political and economic arrangements, including anti-trust policy and how much investment society and parents make in their children's …

Robert Johnson says the scale of the political investment of finance, six, seven hundred million dollars, is overwhelming; with the political power of finance, do we still have a …