Erin Rode, LA Progressive. Tenant advocates say Ratio Utility Billing Systems function like hidden rent increases. By shifting unpredictable building costs onto renters. In Alicia Yu’s first post-college apartment, a…
Sarah Anderson Inequality.org Low-wage US workers have faced multiple rising threats to their economic and personal security over the past year. Aggressive Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions have terrorized…
Aline Zunzunegui, Inequality.org. The people of Mexico demanded that the people’s game be returned to them. The World Cup came home. For weeks, Mexico stood at the center of the…
Steven Hill, Democracy SOS. \America’s greatest anti-poverty program has long been the great income leveller in an unequal economy and democracy. And now it faces an existential threat. A financial…
By Shaddi Zeid, Hannah Gelder, Marla Bramble This article was originally published by Truthout Our campaign won a digital advertising revenue tax that may generate over $1.1 billion annually for…
Dean Baker Substack I was not an Alan Greenspan fan, but I will give him some serious credit on his passing. I’ll also give him serious blame for missing two…
“For decades, he preached that the self-interest of the predator was the invisible hand of the common good,” Yanis Varoufakis said after the man who led the US central bank…
Joshua Scheer As the world reflects on the life and legacy of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, economist Yanis Varoufakis offers a reminder that the debate Greenspan helped shape…
ScheerPost Staff As Elon Musk crossed the trillion-dollar threshold following SpaceX’s historic public offering, millions of Americans received a very different economic message: their paychecks are buying less. The juxtaposition…
Joshua Scheer With the public debut of SpaceX, Elon Musk has officially become the first trillionaire in human history—a milestone celebrated by financial media as a triumph of innovation and…
Adam Johnson for TRNN Amazon founder and Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos made news earlier this week by claiming the reason he fired 30 percent of the Washington Post’s staff and…
Americans rejected monarchy 250 years ago. So why do we now defend an economic system that allows a microscopic fraction of humanity to accumulate extraordinary wealth, influence, and political power?…
A hospital CEO says looming Medicaid reductions threaten vulnerable residents and the state’s health system. Mark Kreidler for Capital and Main Just as California’s billionaires would prefer, the public conversation…
Marcus Baram for Capital & Main On April 21, nearly two months into the Iran war, the Pentagon unveiled a $1.5 trillion budget request that promised to bolster services for…
Josh Scheer Ten years after the world first glimpsed the Panama Papers, the shadow empire of the super-rich is no less formidable. New analysis from Oxfam reveals a staggering truth:…
