Inequality

Excess wealth, widespread poverty, and inequality are all poisonous to our nation. These poisons threaten our economy, our democratic process, academic integrity, our justice system and our culture.

Despite mass media attention to the War on Poverty at 50, its centerpiece, the Community Action Program, is ignored.

Poverty has been identified as a factor in lower IQ and psychiatric disorders. What can this tell us about public policy and the minimum wage?

The uproar over what GM's paying its new CEO should be about more than equal pay for women at the top of the corporate ladder.

Once again, Florida's Stand Your Ground law has helped a man escape conviction for killing an African-American teenager.

It's a hallmark of the Obama presidency: talk about change, but not deliver any. Will the president's pledge on equal pay suffer the same fate?

The SCHR alone has repeatedly sued the state of Georgia for underfunding its public defender system to the point where defendants lack any reasonable semblance of representation.

Those arrows aren't hitting their lovelorn targets the way they once did. The reason? New research points to our growing economic divide.

Black History Month provides an opportunity to reflect on a past we should never forget and the extent to which the legacy of racial inequality is still with us.

Barbara Garson, author most recently of “Down the Up Escalator,” talks about the unsustainable inequality we are spiraling into as capitalists forget they need redistribution to save their own …