Inequality

Truthout interviews Marc Mauer, author of

Most minimum-wage workers are adults, the majority of them are women, and many are parents who are trying to raise their children on poverty wages.

Robert Reich: Anyone who wants to understand the dis-uniting of America needs to see how dramatically we're segregating geographically by income and wealth.

Unlike the offshore account tax fraud that gets so much press and regulatory attention, many of the most egregious tax avoidance scams are perfectly legal.

Dr. Ben Carson is beloved by conservatives, but should he stick to what he knows in the operating room.

Angela Davis struggled bravely for decades to demonstrate that education is a form of political intervention.

As we increasingly rely on cheap domestic labor, we are allowing abusive employers to hold deportation over workers' heads to exploit them.

Richard Wolff deconstructs claims of efficiency and freedom made by enterprises outsourcing production.

At the World Social Forum last week in Tunisia, capitalism, imperialism, neoliberal economics and shock doctrine policies were the main targets.

A major new study published in The Lancet makes clear that austerity policies adopted in the European south have produced health care crises.