Economic Inequality

The US financial sector has grown far beyond what efficiency requires, creating massive waste that sensible reforms could sharply reduce.

Increasing his family’s wealth is the one policy Donald Trump appears to care most about — and it is having severely negative consequences for everyone else.

Despite headline job numbers, the labor market shows stagnation, rising insecurity, and growing inequality under Trump.

The Washington Post’s defense of massive CEO pay illustrates how billionaire-owned media justify inequality despite weak evidence that it benefits workers, shareholders, or society.

Owen Libby’s “new ideas” recycle outdated policies that benefit the wealthy and fail to address real economic issues.

New paper examines key economic, social indicators since the previous administration, and before.

Generational inequality claims are a media-driven distraction from the real problem: rising within-generation inequality and extreme wealth concentration at the top.

Media are not doing a good job explaining the ways that Trump lies about the economy.

The notion that economic policy over the last half century was about ‘leaving things to the market’ is a sick lie that obscures the real drivers of inequality.

As the White House continues to threaten to cut off millions of Americans from their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, it is important to understand that this will disproportionately impact disabled people. Adults with disabilities make up about 25 percent of SNAP recipients, nearly twice their share in the overall population.