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Inequitable access to public goods and economic opportunities must be immediately remedied, while continued consciousness of racial justice is necessary to ensure future changes in the city do not disproportionately disadvantage black residents.

How bad it really gets: Inequality and climate disaster wreck an Illinois town. Trump's divine right, and more.

Is he relevant today beyond his reputation as a comic icon?

Gallup asked 6,600 U.S. workers what they saw as the defining characteristics of a “good” job, then used their answers to construct a “job-quality index.” As measured by the index only 40 percent of Americans currently have “good” jobs.

Courts have grown more dependent on fees and fines for revenue. But enforcing them is expensive — and we don’t even know the true costs.

"If we measure the wrong thing," warns Joseph Stiglitz, "we will do the wrong thing."

Policymakers should reconsider how the tax code treats the most well-off. Here is a closer look.

Last year, the number of workers who participated in significant strikes soared to nearly 500,000, its highest point since the mid-1980s, while the total duration of such strikes reached a 15-year high.

Class politics is reemerging in response to the huge inequality caused by the 2008 crash.