But Congress has underfunded transit for years. And this is particularly true when it comes to operations funds — which are ...

Today, Black employees make up 18.7 percent of the federal workforce. This is no accident — it reflects decades of civil ...

Uber in Houston offered freedom – flexible hours, quick cash, and time to care for his young son. But that promise faded fast ...

Flequer Vera, co-founder of the Sustainergy worker co-op, knows first-hand about exploitation in the American workplace.

The House plan would disproportionately benefit top earners and sacrifice significant federal revenue — without increasing ...

Republicans in Congress are jamming through a sweeping bill to fund handouts to the rich — at the cost of jobs, health care, ...

The global trend towards extreme wealth and income concentration has dramatically strengthened the economic and political power of those individuals — overwhelmingly male — at the top. In the United ...

In many parts of the world, inequality is spiraling out of control. The basic facts have become depressingly familiar. In the United States, the top 0.1 percent now control about the same amount of ...

The following is written testimony prepared for a March 17, 2021 Senate Budget Committee hearing on “The Income and Wealth Inequality Crisis in America.” Thank you, Chairman Sanders, Ranking Member ...

Words of departed champions of greater equity, from Plato and Prince to Kahlo and Keller. “America has more money than any other single country or civilization has ever been able to amass. We have the ...

The deep and persistent racial wealth divide will not close without bold, structural reform. It has been created and held in place by public policies that have evolved with time including slavery, Jim ...

Since the start of the pandemic, Connecticut’s fourteen billionaires have seized $12.6 billion in additional wealth—while hundreds of thousands of working people across the state, especially working ...