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With Trump and the GOP slashing essential services to enrich the wealthy, states and cities need to get creative in taking ...
As private grocers abandon low-income neighborhoods, Zohran Mamdani’s public ownership proposal offers a solution to market ...
Cutting Medicaid strips essential home and community-based medical services from people with disabilities.
President Trump is now promoting $5-million “gold card” tickets to U.S. citizenship for wealthy foreigners, with no obligation to create good jobs for Americans. Many immigrants, meanwhile, face ...
Millions of rural Americans don’t have a car. With the pandemic battering transit agencies, they’re being totally isolated.
As private grocers abandon low-income neighborhoods, Zohran Mamdani’s public ownership proposal offers a solution to market failures.
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 ...
President Joe Biden and Congressional progressives have responded to public pressure by putting bold spending proposals on the table that would make our economy more fair, sustainable, and resilient ...
Republican leaders in Congress have been working feverishly over recent days to renew the rich people-friendly 2017 Trump tax cuts set to expire at this year’s end. Both the House and Senate have now ...
Far too many Americans still see poverty through a racial prism that distorts demographic realities — and undermines efforts to narrow income inequality.
About three score years ago, on a January Sunday afternoon in 1967, some of us gathered in college dorm basement lounges to watch pro football’s historic first “Super Bowl.” A good bit has changed ...