When I was 16 years old, I got my first job working the grill at McDonald’s. It punctured my bubble of economic privilege.

Conservative members of the House Budget Committee showed up at a recent hearing on poverty to preach what they think they already know about people living in poverty.

In order to better the economic circumstances of their constituency, Democrats should do something they have consistently avoided: taking a side in a class war.

Globalizing capitalism and its rising prices and wealth inequalities has a remarkable historical parallel, writes Richard Wolff. Should modern-day capitalists be guarding the Bastille?

Economist Dean Baker writes that Piketty's book is a bold attempt to pick up where Marx left off and correct what he got wrong.

Senator Bernie Sanders fears military intervention in Syria would be a costly mistake at a time when America should focus on serious economic problems closer to home.

Low-wage, temporary work is becoming a new normal in post-recession America, and today's temp workers are no longer in it temporarily.

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship reveal how the owners of capital wring even greater wealth from the sweat and sacrifice of workers, deepening America's economic inequality.

The answer may surprise you. A new Demos study estimates that American taxpayers fund nearly 2 million private-sector jobs that pay workers less than $24,000 a year.

Could committing to a contract grow and unify the moment against poverty?