President Biden has already committed to addressing systemic racism. Here’s a good place to start.
Wealth and inequality
Reparations, debt cancellation, and climate justice are all regular features in climate solutions—but what do they mean in practice?
Unchecked inflation can be damaging, but what we’re seeing in the U.S. is a fundamentally different issue: one in which inflation is being politicized.
Conventional banking hasn't worked for businesses owned by people of color. But a new network is designed to get money flowing fairly to BIPOC economies.
How to decolonize wealth through reparations.
Today’s subminimum wages are a legacy of racist policies that date from the Civil War.
After years of grassroots activism, the city has found success in addressing historical housing discrimination through community land trusts.
Occupy Wall Street gave the left ideas, skills, and a base in a way no one could have imagined a decade ago. The radicalization of a generation, the ability to easily explain class, the potential for mass nonviolent direct action, and crowbarring politics to let in socialist ideas and elected officials are all invaluable legacies.
We can’t talk about corruption and tax dodging around the world when we’re encouraging it at home.
And how tax havens—including in the U.S.—are used to hide money from tax authorities.
The Bush administration used the attacks to label dissent and protests against international trade agreements as terrorism. Now movements have recovered their lost momentum.
We keep saying we can’t go back to the way we were before the pandemic. But we just might be doing that.
Supplemental Security Income, a lifeline for the elderly and disabled, hasn’t been updated since the 1970s. Now is the time to close the gap.
The themes of Gill Scott-Heron’s seminal poem written decades ago resonate more strongly than ever as billionaires like Jeff Bezos spend their money on lavish vanity projects.
Money has become concentrated in very few hands. Now some experts are considering that money itself may be part of the problem.
The Olympics puts the spotlight on many sports that ordinarily don’t get attention. For some youth athletes, those niche sports become a vehicle for upward mobility.
A new generation of wealth advisers helps wealthy people give away their money instead of hoard it.
We must redistribute wealth and not look at it as a favor, but a call to action
The president’s American Families Plan takes its cue from feminist economists who have long advocated for a renewed focus on the social safety net.
Border walls aren’t necessary, and neither are the borders themselves in a world built on justice and equality, says author Todd Miller.
The economic impact of the pandemic has created an opportunity for the federal government to reconsider its traditional responses to poverty and unemployment.
Two words: energy justice.
Biden’s infrastructure plans promise not just to boost the economy, but to fundamentally redefine the role of government.
An attempt by thousands of mostly Black workers to unionize at a fulfillment center gives new life to the labor movement.
The American Rescue Plan offers a lot of fixes to long-term issues affecting American families. That’s why they shouldn’t be allowed to expire in a year.
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