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Inequality

  1. labor
    Democracy Dies When Labor Unions DoStrengthening unions should be at the heart of any agenda for reviving American democracy because labor’s weakness is at the heart of its decline.
    By Eric Levitz
  2. the economy
    The Fastest Growing Jobs in America Don’t Require a College DegreeExpanding access to higher education can’t revive the middle class. Only increasing the bargaining power of service-sector workers can.
    By Eric Levitz
  3. inequality
    The Fed Just Released a Damning Indictment of CapitalismThe true “extremists” in American politics are those who insist that our economic system is working just fine.
    By Eric Levitz
  4. vision 2020
    In Appeal to Moderates, Bernie Calls for Worker-Ownership of Means of ProductionSanders’s new plan for increasing labor’s share of profits is both more socialist – and more popular – than some of his more conventional policies.
    By Eric Levitz
  5. education
    Robert Smith’s Morehouse Gift Is More Generous Than His VisionThe billionaire’s donation of $40 million to pay off the debt of Morehouse grads was a noble act of charity. But charity is not justice.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  6. inequality
    Report: IRS More Likely to Audit Those Living in Poorer CountiesLike many facets of American life, the poor bear an outsized number of Internal Revenue Service audits, according to a new study.
    By Matt Stieb
  7. college admissions scandal
    Of Course the College Admissions Scandal Has an NCAA AngleIn a way, it’s the strangest element of this thoroughly bizarre case.
    By Jesse Singal
  8. college admissions scandal
    All College Admissions Are a Pay-to-Play ScandalRevelations that Hollywood stars and business leaders bribed elite schools into accepting their kids is a reminder that meritocracy is a myth.
    By Eric Levitz
  9. the city politic
    Even Our Dog Parks Show America Is an Unequal Playing FieldAll dogs may go to heaven, but lower-income canine lovers have found that not every dog gets to enjoy a ritzy outdoor space.
    By Sarah Jones
  10. technology
    Rage Drove the Google Walkout. Can It Bring About Real Change at Tech Companies?The tools of technology can stop a workers’ revolution as surely as they can help start one.
    By Alex Morris
  11. howard schultz
    Howard Schultz Wants a President Who Will Tell Billionaires Their Favorite LiesThe mogul is sick of the left’s impossible promises. Which is why he’s promising that we can reduce inequality without raising taxes on the rich.
    By Eric Levitz
  12. vision 2020
    Elizabeth Warren to Propose Spreading the Wealth AroundA 70 percent tax on incomes over $10 million isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A 2 percent tax on the wealth of the super-rich.
    By Eric Levitz
  13. alexandria ocasio-cortez
    AOC Thinks Billionaires Are a Threat to Democracy. So Did Our Founders.The idea that democracy and billionaires are incompatible might seem radical to conservatives. But to America’s founders, it seemed like common sense.
    By Eric Levitz
  14. conservatism
    The Right’s Case Against Soaking the Rich Is Dirt PoorConservatives’ best arguments against raising taxes on millionaires rest on fallacies — and ignore extreme inequality’s social and political costs.
    By Eric Levitz
  15. polls
    Poll: Majority Backs AOC’s 70 Percent Top Marginal Tax RateSome pundits deemed Ocasio-Cortez’s plans for soaking the rich “radical.” Forty-five percent of GOP voters say it sounds about right.
    By Eric Levitz
  16. inequality
    The Rich Haven’t Become Too Immoral. They’ve Become Too Rich.Moral decline didn’t make capitalism more predatory. Policies that weakened unions and enriched capitalists did.
    By Eric Levitz
  17. alexandria ocasio-cortez
    Ocasio-Cortez’s 70 Percent Top Tax Rate Is a Moderate, Evidence-Based PolicyEconomic research and opinion polling suggest there’s nothing “extreme” about taxing incomes over $10 million at pre-Reagan rates.
    By Eric Levitz
  18. higher education
    A New Study Illustrates One Easy Way to Increase Diversity on College CampusesNew research reinforces the systemic nature of the barriers low-income students encounter when they consider higher education.
    By Sarah Jones
  19. politics
    Tribalism Isn’t Our Democracy’s Problem. The Conservative Movement Is.Partisan polarization has made it easier for lawmakers to disregard the popular will; but it is reactionary elites who demand such disregard.
    By Eric Levitz
  20. the economy
    There’s Plenty of Economic Anxiety in America. It’s Hurting Trump Politically.Yes, the economy is doing well overall, but those left out of the bounty are not very happy with Donald Trump or his party.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. trump tax cuts
    The Trump Tax Cuts Keep Getting Worse for the Deficit — and Better for the RichRich people are manipulating retirement plans to milk the Trump tax cuts for all they’re worth (and then a little extra).
    By Eric Levitz
  22. Unions Are Not a Special Interest GroupA new study confirms that labor unions raise wages for all workers — especially those of color — and do not significantly slow economic growth.
    By Eric Levitz
  23. Jordan Peterson Does Not Support ‘Equality of Opportunity’When conservatives decry “equality of outcomes,” they’re usually evading a debate about structural inequalities in the distribution of opportunity.
    By Eric Levitz
  24. democratic party
    Affluent Democrats Aren’t an Obstacle to Economic PopulismThe class divide between affluent and working-class Democrats is less politically significant than the divide between both groups and the super-rich.
    By Eric Levitz
  25. The Trump Tax Cuts Just Got Even More Skewed to the RichThe Senate bill gave 62 percent of its tax cuts to the top 1 percent of income earners. In the final tax bill, their share goes up to 83 percent.
    By Eric Levitz
  26. Inequality Is Rising Across the Globe — and Skyrocketing in the U.S.A new report shows that inequality is a political choice — and American policy makers have chosen to accelerate its growth.
    By Eric Levitz
  27. How the Trump Tax Cuts Would Reshape (and/or Break) Our EconomyThe GOP’s tax reforms would have major consequences for housing, higher education, and manufacturing — and just might trigger a recession.
    By Eric Levitz
  28. The Trump Economy Is a Gilded MediocrityFive reasons why the American economy is far weaker than mainstream commentary suggests.
    By Eric Levitz
  29. The Working Poor Got Richer in 2016Low unemployment and minimum-wage increases sparked strong wage growth at the bottom of America’s income ladder in Obama’s final year.
    By Eric Levitz
  30. A New Study Shows How Severe Inequality Is — and How Little We’re Doing About ItThe average income for the bottom 50 percent is the same as in 1980 — while the average income for the top one percent has more than tripled.
    By Eric Levitz
  31. New Study Finds the American Dream Is Even More Dead Than You ThoughtNew research shows there’s less social mobility in the United States than previously believed.
    By Eric Levitz
  32. The Global Super-Rich Got Less Super-Rich in 2015For the first time in seven years, the world population of super-rich people declined last year.
    By Eric Levitz
  33. 62 Billionaires Own As Much Wealth As Half of HumanityAnd the planet’s richest one percent now own more than the bottom 99 percent, according to a new report by Oxfam.
    By Eric Levitz
  34. important news
    College Newspaper Scores Poop Scoop of the CenturyCollege students demand that their school give them a better pee or give them death.
    By Jaime Fuller
  35. the national interest
    Why Conservatives Use Novels to Justify InequalityCriticizing socialistic dystopia is easier than defending the Republican agenda.
    By Jonathan Chait
  36. inequality
    One Percent Have Almost Half the World’s WealthAnd the one percent are on track to possess more than half by 2016.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  37. mind the income gap
    How Obama Both Has, and Has Not, Reduced InequalityNarrowing the wealth gap is a tough policy fight — and only getting tougher.
    By Annie Lowrey
  38. the national interest
    Romney’s Radical Theory of FairnessThe only unfairness is that which government creates.
    By Jonathan Chait
  39. the more mobile
    One Percent of Mobile Users Take Up Fifty Percent of the BandwidthOccupy your Verizon bill.
    By Noreen Malone
  40. the national interest
    Inequality and BullshitPethokoukis’s latest project is to deny — or quasi-deny, or muddy the waters, depending on the day — the fact of rising income inequality.
    By Jonathan Chait
  41. the national interest
    The Ideological Fantasies of Inequality DeniersDon’t confuse Paul Ryan with the facts.
    By Jonathan Chait
  42. inequality
    The Real Income Inequality GapIt’s between the rich and the crazy rich.
    By Jessica Pressler
  43. cable-stained wretches
    Rick Sanchez Promotes Jon Stewart From ‘Bigot’ to ‘Classiest Guy in the World’Sanchez talks about the chip on his shoulder.
    By Nitasha Tiku