Inequality

More Americans work without full-time employers, yet policies fail to address this new reality.

With Washington looking hopeless, it's up to local communities to close the gap between the richest and the rest.

Trump's administration promises policies that will expand the income inequality. But a few glimmers of hope are emerging at the local level.

Although changes in public policy could close the widening pension gap, such changes are unlikely to come from the GOP.

Efforts to hold Michigan charter schools accountable have failed, thanks to lobbying from Betsy DeVos's family.

In “Rigged,” economist Dean Baker argues that there is nothing free or resilient about the myth of the “free market.”

Trump has threatened to raze recent FCC decisions on net neutrality and its associated privacy regulations.

It's time to decentralize political and economic power and bring back the concept of true public ownership.

On November 8, voters in many states will have the opportunity to weigh in on a wide variety of inequality-related issues.

The arguments in McCutcheon v. FEC ultimately explain what's wrong with how we treat the influence of money in politics.