The “gig” model of labor popularized by Uber has found a new sector to upend: health care. On-demand nursing companies ...

In 2025, households in America’s top 1 percent will save an average $61,090 thanks to that 2017 tax cut. Households in the ...

Inequality has been on the rise across the globe for several decades. Some countries have reduced the numbers of people living in extreme poverty. But economic gaps have continued to grow as the very ...

The growing concentration of wealth and power is distorting philanthropy, which is meant to serve the common good. Wealth and philanthropic power is concentrating in fewer hands, posing an immense ...

Once upon a time, here in the United States, we taxed the rich. Significantly. Today, by contrast, we’re actively enhancing their fortunes. Including the biggest personal fortune of them all, the ...

In dark times like these, shining a light on successful efforts to reverse our country’s extreme inequality is more important than ever. As we looked back on 2024, we actually found plenty to ...

Been eating a bit too much ice cream this sweltering summer? Thinking about going on a bit of a diet? Well, imagine yourself counting calories but exempting anything with sugar from all your counting.

What happens — to democracy — when income and wealth concentrate? A half-century ago, that question hardly seemed worth asking. In the decades right after World War II, Americans were living in a ...