"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.
If Kickstarter became a union company, it would be the first of the major tech companies to do so. The company has a chance to show which side it’s really on.
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.
"The underlying problem is in the model of production and consumerism, in the ownership of natural resources and in the unequal distribution of wealth." Today, 26 people in the world have the same wealth as 3.8 billion people.
Most tenants don't understand their rights, whether they have a legal defense in an eviction case, and whether they can get a better deal in a settlement.
Apart from filling corporate coffers and the pocketbooks of the 1 percent, the $1.9 trillion cut has put the federal government in a financial straightjacket.
A crucial part of his coalition is made up of better-off white people who did not graduate from college.
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