Corporate flacks and entitled millennials get plenty of TV airtime. Working Americans, not so much.

Obamacare forced cuts at hospitals, but not for other segments of industry.

America's minimum wage lags behind those of most other rich countries.

As summer ends, Republicans and Democrats alike dance with the ones that brung them.

One way Obama can address the issue of income inequality is by giving low-wage federal workers the right to organize and bargain for fair working conditions.

Labor Day is not the time to dismiss the ability of organized workers to fight economic inequality.

USC's Edward Kleinbard says we deserve a smarter conversation about the role of government in our society.

"Our role now is to be like a social defibrillator, to shock the heart of the nation, to cause it to revive and to remember what the real enemy is: regressive extremism."

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?

Last week, the bank agreed to a record-setting $16.65 billion settlement for selling toxic mortgage securities during the housing boom. The deal includes $30 million for legal aid, but it's not enough.