January 22, 2016The former labor secretary has become de facto economic educator in chief for millions of Americans who are dissatisfied with America's winner-take-all economy.
January 21, 2016With friends and critics on both sides of the ideological divide, the former labor secretary has become a crusader for knocking America's powerful down a few notches and halting our march toward inequality.
January 20, 2016In his new book Plutocrats United, election law scholar Rick Hasen argues that the problem isn't that politicians are corrupted by special interests — it's that they have no incentive to pay attention to anyone but the rich.
January 11, 2016The Pew Research Center recently highlighted some data points worth noting as we enter this election year.
January 8, 2016If Republican candidates want to be taken seriously when they gather to discuss poverty, they must acknowledge the full extent of it — and that we already have the solutions to fix it.
January 5, 2016If Democrats of earlier eras had adopted the Clinton approach, there would be no Medicare or Social Security – and no publicly funded elementary schools or high schools.
December 13, 2015In a new petition, more than a hundred thousand Americans are asking the president to take action on special-interest money in politics.
December 8, 2015As the saying goes, they (the 1 percent at the top) only call it class warfare when the rest of us (the 99 percent) are fighting back. Since the economic meltdown of 2008’s Great Recession and the Occupy movement of protest and action, the specter of vast, ever-expanding income inequality across the planet has been countered by a growing awareness among the rest of us of the gravity of the problem, its disastrous implications for ...
December 7, 2015Echoes of America’s violent history can be heard in today’s fearful politics.
December 7, 2015Echoes of America’s violent history can be heard in today’s fearful politics.
