Our collapse from an "opportunity for all" middle-class economy to a "winner-take-all," dog-eat-dog system is behind many problems we face as a society.

Despite the buildup, President Obama had little to say about income inequality and nothing about America's poor.

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.

All that talk of "overtaxed job creators" is curious.

For the first time in a century, the top 10 percent of Americans control more than half of all income.

Having poor people in the richest country in the world is a choice. We have the money to solve this. But do we have the will?

Inequality isn't inevitable in capitalism, says the Noble Prize-winning economist in Harper's. But it is with the capitalist system America currently has.

The Nobel Prize-winning economist fires back at claims that our increasingly skewed economy is the result of "natural" market forces.

"Why don’t the unemployed get off their couches?" and eight other critical questions for Americans.

The richest 10 percent of people in the world hold 86 percent of the world’s wealth.