But even when the shutdown ends, the threat to the nation’s primary nutrition assistance program won’t be over. When the ...

In most of the country, child care is too expensive for families and pays too little for providers. New Mexico is fixing that ...

In 2024, the Journal noted, the wealth of America’s top 0.00001 percent — our 19 richest billionaires — increased by $1 trillion, to about $2.6 trillion. Their share of the country’s wealth jumped ...

The Republican strategies on taxes and immigration benefit billionaires while leaving the working class behind.

Even though most of us think of healthcare as a human right, the reality is that in the United States the provision of ...

As the big, ugly GOP budget bill moves through Congress, advocates for a fair economy are hitting the road. Two organizations — Fair Share America and Unrig Our Economy — are bringing experts and ...

Investors will vote on several issues at the heart of a broader national effort by oligarchs and corporate insiders to ...

When the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced it had settled its “dark patterns” lawsuit against Amazon last month, leaders at the antitrust and consumer protection watchdog celebrated. “Today, we ...

Conventional wisdom claims that far-right voters are the least supportive of redistribution and the least likely to change their minds when faced with facts about inequality. But my recent study with ...

In his first interview since becoming the leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV fielded a question about the polarization that is tearing societies apart around the world. A significant factor, ...

Two months ago, Sloan Meek – a disability rights advocate with cerebral palsy – took the stage at a rally protesting the Medicaid cuts in Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.” Meek warned how $1 ...

Zohran Mamdani’s surprise win in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City was powered by a focus on affordability. One of his more innovative proposals to help address the city’s growing cost ...