Only a relatively few of America’s deep pockets — like the oilmen H.L. Hunt and Bud Adams, another of the AFL’s original ...

Amazon workers at the JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island shocked the world in 2022 when they voted to form the first American union at the e-commerce giant. A new documentary — Union — gives a behind-the ...

Artificial intelligence is already exacerbating harms against low-income people. We need to fight back, together.

In the 1920s, the U.S. economy boomed, for the rich, and then busted the nation into the Great Depression. Will Trump II and ...

Our wealthiest have never been wealthier. And now they have Trump back.

We won progressive taxes in our state by showing people just how unjust our tax code was. Other states can follow.

Over three score years ago, President Dwight Eisenhower had a warning for America. “We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the ...

In today’s world of widespread poverty and unprecedented wealth, how about raising the wages of the most poorly-paid workers? This October, the World Bank reported that “8.5 percent of the global ...

The new year has begun with old news: The world is continuing to become colossally more unequal — with the United States leading the way. In 2024, wealth trackers at Bloomberg have just reported in a ...

At the close of 2024 there were 813 billionaires in the United States with a combined total wealth of $6.72 trillion, according to an analysis of the Forbes wealth data. The total number of ...