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The climate crisis has exposed more and more workers to extreme heat. Regulations need to catch up to the problem.
The latest UBS Global Wealth Report offers a stark snapshot of global inequality: The richest 1.5 percent of the world's adults now own nearly half of all global wealth.
Goods that working-class families need to get by will get no such exemption.
Increasing union density must be the primary objective of the labor movement.
Fears of an exodus of wealthy residents from Massachusetts after the implementation of the state's Fair Share tax were overblown, our research has found. inequality.org/article/wher...
SpaceX's tumbling stock value isn't a problem for the big banks behind its IPO.
Millionaires jetting between World Cup games has only made this problem worse.
The bar for joining the ranks of America’s richest has never been higher.
The richest footballer at the World Cup isn't even in the same wealth stratosphere as Musk.
A worker died during her shift producing Victoria’s Secret apparel at a factory in Sri Lanka last year. Organizers with @globallaborjustice.bsky.social are fighting to make sure that never happens again. Sign their letter here: globallaborjustice.org/news/letter-...
The absurd resources dedicated to Trump's passion projects should be spent elsewhere.
This era of wealth concentration is even more gilded than the last.
The US-Israeli war on Iran has been a boon for the capitalist class.
Corporations would rather spend 1.7 billion dollars than let their workers unionize.
Elon Musk’s wealth now roughly amounts, in today’s dollars, to 175 times the net worth of the richest American back in 1982.
Wages and productivity have decoupled since 1970, leaving workers with a smaller and smaller piece of the American pie.
This World Cup is prohibitively expensive for working-class families.
In 1990, every single one of the top 20 charities in the US was an operating charity — groups directly carrying out charitable work. Today, the landscape is dramatically different. Want to see what this chart looks like now?
Wealthy, out-of-state investors play a major role in pushing Hawaii real estate prices sky-high. And the U.S. military’s massive presence in the state is pumping up that pressure on prices, forcing many local residents to move elsewhere. via @ocampomar.bsky.social inequality.org/article/us-m...
Here's how the sports betting kingpins will make it even easier to rip people off
Should billionaires pay more taxes? You can probably guess which side our co-editor @chuck77.bsky.social takes in this debate. His civil sparring with someone from @cato.org actually makes for a really educational exchange. Studio 2 from WHYY www.youtube.com/live/1ZpXvRk...
Billionaires are tipping the scales of democracy in San Francisco, but that isn't enough to guarantee a win.
Billionaire spending on elections has skyrocketed since 2010's Citizens United decision. Thankfully, last week Hawaii became the first state to pass a law directly challenging that disastrous Supreme Court ruling.