Inequality

In Texas and everywhere else, a realistic politics should challenge not only obvious opponents on the right, but untrustworthy allies in the center.

This American Hustle allows politicians, the media, and the public to wash their collective hands of actually doing anything except demanding that the lazy poor step up to the …

Two organizers discuss what it could take for social movements to turn the promise of liberal reform into reality.

Raising the minimum wage would give our economy much more bang for the buck than we get from the financial industry's yearly windfalls.

Michael Yates discusses the importance of not just organizing workers, but teaching radical ideas.

Women are three-quarters of workers in the largest, lowest-wage occupations.

Has Harvard economist Greg Mankiw been living in a cave since 2006?

Last week, the Wall Street Journal highlighted a Federal Reserve report on total household net worth. Surprise! Americans are richer than ever before, both in nominal and real terms. …

The persistent gender wage gap affects earners at all levels, high to low, from the boardroom on down. What's to be done?

Last Wednesday, more than 400 San Francisco city employees marched from the city's Department of Human Resources to Twitter headquarters a few blocks away. The workers chanted, "Twitter, you're …