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  • Five Years After: Long Live Howard Zinn
    January 29, 2015
    | Bill Bigelow
    As we remember Howard Zinn five years after his passing, let’s count him among the many social justice heroes and teachers who offer proof that people’s efforts make a difference — that ordinary people can change the world.
  • Kevin Prindiville: Protect and Strengthen Medicare and Medicaid
    January 24, 2015
    | Kevin Prindiville
    The government health care programs turn 50 this year. One advocate argues that rising health care costs mean that strengthening and improving them is more important than ever.
  • Economy & Work
    Why Wages Won’t Rise
    January 22, 2015
    | Robert Reich
    Jobs are coming back, but pay isn’t. What's going on? Robert Reich explains.
  • In SOTU, President Punts on Income Inequality
    January 21, 2015
    | Michael Winship
    Despite the buildup, President Obama had little to say about income inequality and nothing about America's poor.
  • Maxwell John Love: Make Public Higher Education Completely Free
    January 21, 2015
    | Maxwell John Love
    Last night in his State of the Union address, the president said the words ‘free’ and ‘college’ in the same sentence. The administration’s proposal is a big deal. Here's why.
  • Inequality
    Obama's New Agenda Gives Hope to Native Youth
    January 20, 2015
    | Erik Stegman
    The President's meeting with native teenagers made him "tear up in the Oval Office." His new agenda to help better their lives is huge step for low-income tribal communities across the country.
  • History
    Can History Teach Us Anything About How to Eradicate Inequality?
    January 18, 2015
    | Gary May
    Perhaps the most revolutionary effort to end American inequality occurred almost 50 years ago and was led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Inequality
    In Wealthy Silicon Valley, 300 Evicted from Homeless Camp
    January 8, 2015
    The vast divide between America's rich and poor made stark by the destruction of San Jose's "Jungle."
  • Economy & Work
    Here Are 10 Charts That Show Us Just How Unequal We Are Right Now
    January 5, 2015
    | Economic Policy Institute
    These charts show why addressing inequality and spurring wage growth is so necessary – and so doable. Policy choices led to these trends, and different policy choices can reverse them.
  • Inequality and the American Child
    December 30, 2014
    | Joseph E. Stiglitz
    Among developed countries, only Romania has a higher rate of child poverty. That's because America has embraced a policy agenda in recent decades that has caused its economy to become wildly unequal.


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