Blueprint For The Most Radical City On The Planet

Above photo: Lumumba with his son Chokwe Antar and daughter Rukia when he was elected Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us break through. In July 2017, 34 year old Chokwe Antar Lumumba was sworn in ... Read more

The Myths Of Recovery: Why American Households Aren’t Better Off

Above Photo: Workers pack and ship customer orders at the 750,000-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center on August 1, 2017 in Romeoville, Illinois. The stagnation of real incomes from 1999 through today is structural, not cyclical Off the top, the figures published by the U.S. Census ... Read more

The Racial Wealth Gap Is Leading To An Almost-Nonexistent Middle Class

Above Photo: Top photo | Deborah Goldring stands inside her Baltimore home. From growing up black in the segregated 1960s, Goldring pulled herself out of poverty and earned a middle-class life – until the Great Recession. First, her husband fell ill, and they drained savings ... Read more

Racial Inequality Is Hollowing Out America’s Middle Class

Above Photo: Kenneth Worles, Jr. / Institute for Policy Studies As our country becomes more diverse, our racial wealth gap means it’s also becoming poorer. America’s middle class is under assault. Since 1983, national median wealth has declined by 20 percent, falling from $73,000 to ... Read more

Sometimes The Poor Make It Big. Usually They Stay Poor

Above Photo: Shutterstock We’d be a better country if we didn’t rig the game against those whose only mistake was to be born to poor parents. We all want to live in a country where all it takes is hard work and some talent for anyone to succeed. We tell ourselves that we do. We even see ... Read more

Inside America’s Largest Worker-Run Business

Above Photo: From fastcompany.com Can workplace democracy pave the way to better conditions in low-wage industries? For home care aides, the results of one 30-year experiment are mixed. Fifteen years ago, Clara Calvo had just left her husband and her job. Both were abusive in their own ways. Her ... Read more

Reversing Inequality: Unleashing Potential Of An Equitable Economy

Above Photo: From thenextsystem.org Introduction The US economy’s deep systemic inequalities of income, wealth, power, and opportunity are part of global inequality trends, but US-style capitalism and public policy make inequalities more acute. Their observable and felt harm to ... Read more

Don’t Lie To Poor Kids About Why They’re Poor

Above Photo: Shutterstock Those at the bottom — and the top — deserve to know why their experiences are so different. Work hard and you’ll get ahead — that’s the mantra driven into young people across the country. But what happens when children born into poverty run face first into the crushing ... Read more

Fighting Inequality: Which Nations Do More Than Pay Lip Service?

Above Photo: From inequality.org Two global groups have joined to create a first-ever yardstick for holding our world’s top politicos accountable, nation by nation, for narrowing our grand divides. Two years ago, in 2015, just about all the nations in the world came together ... Read more

In 40 Years: CEO Pay Up 937%, Worker Wages Stagnant

Above: Image credit: Sergei Bachlakov / Shutterstock.com US inequality problem continues to be the worst in the industrialized world. A new report, published by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) this week, shows that while wages for American workers have essentially remained stagnant for ... Read more