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Economy & Work
  • No One Should Have to Walk 21 Miles to Get to Work
    February 5, 2015
    | Katie Rose Quandt
    This Detroit man's horrific commute is just one extreme example of what poor public transportation means for many Americans.
  • Welcome to Our New Share-the-Scraps Economy
    February 4, 2015
    | Robert Reich
    Companies like Uber, TaskRabbit and Amazon's Mechanical Turk aim to use people more efficiently. Instead we should focus on allocating work and its gains more decently.
  • These 32 “Key” Zip Codes for 2016 Are Super Wealthy and Super White
    February 4, 2015
    | Adam Smith
    Presidential candidates will be spending a lot of time schmoozing with really rich white people with different priorities than the rest of America.
  • Inequality
    The Super-Rich Can't Hide From the Rest of Us
    February 2, 2015
    | Michael Winship
    Reports of hedge fund managers seeking refuge in far away places show a misguided sense of how their money should be spent.
  • Debunking the Case For Fast Track Trade Authority
    February 2, 2015
    | Dave Johnson
    We need the contents of the TPP agreements to be made public now, and stakeholders like labor, environmental, consumer, democracy and health to be part of the process.
  • Inequality
    'Housing First' Policy for Addressing Homelessness Hamstrung By Funding Issues
    January 31, 2015
    | Rachel Cohen
    The new approach may spring from good intentions, but is undermined by a lack of affordable housing stock.
  • The Middle Class Can’t Be Saved Until Wall St Is Tamed
    January 30, 2015
    | Robert Reich
    Yet presidential aspirants won't talk about taming Wall Street because they need its campaign money.
  • Inequality
    American Poverty Is Skyrocketing in Unexpected Places
    January 29, 2015
    | Katie Rose Quandt
    Read one struggling mom's efforts to keep her family afloat.
  • Marian Wright Edelman: Reduce Child Poverty by 60 Percent Right Now
    January 28, 2015
    | Marian Wright Edelman
    These policies could be pursued immediately, improving the lives and futures of millions of children and eventually saving taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars annually.
  • Environment
    Invasion of the Hedge Fund Almonds
    January 27, 2015
    | Tom Philpott
    It takes a gallon of water to produce one almond. And that's not the most insane fact about the hedge-fund-fueled race to plant thirsty trees in the middle of a catastrophic drought.


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