Criminalizing Homelessness Doesn’t Work. Housing People Does
A year after the Supreme Court greenlit crackdowns on people living without shelter, homelessness has only gotten worse.
No Tax on Tips: Too Taxing for Dems
How did Cruz, of all people, take this issue away from the Democrats, the once so-called party of the working class?
Increased Pass-Through Business Tax Break Would Worsen Inequality Without Boosting Growth
The House plan would disproportionately benefit top earners and sacrifice significant federal revenue — without increasing GDP.
Wage Stagnation Has Made ‘Minimal Quality of Life’ Out of Reach for Most in US
New research finds the cost of maintaining a “dignified” life in the US has doubled since 2001.
An $18M Grant Would Have Drastically Reduced Food Waste. Then the EPA Cut It.
The Rhode Island project to create local jobs, launch compost hubs, and reduce emissions was years in the making.
How Did Farmers Respond When the Trump Administration Suddenly Stopped Paying Them to Help Feed Needy Californians?
By George B. Sanchéz-Tello / Capital & Main Every year brings its own unique challenges for California farmers: water shortages, fires, finding laborers to do the work, bureaucrats in Sacramento…
New Messaging Shows Promising Results in Persuading Americans to Support Taxing the Rich
New research suggests a different approach is needed to convince persuadable supporters of progressive taxation.
US VP JD Vance Admits West Wants Global South Trapped at Bottom of Value Chain
At a summit held by a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, US Vice President JD Vance gave a speech about globalization that made it clear that the West wants to…
As DOGE Mauls Social Security, Profit-Hungry Private Equity Is Swooping In
Three private equity veterans are weaseling their way in, reportedly on the orders of the presumptive SSA commissioner.
Twenty-Five Days of Debt-Service Payments Could Emancipate African Women from 40 Billion Hours of Water Harvesting
In the month of International Working Women’s Day, we explore how debt-austerity regimes and climate change impact women farmworkers across the Global South.
The Global North Has Nine Times More Voting Power at the IMF Than the Global South
In the deeply undemocratic IMF, where a country’s voting power is tied not to its population size but to the size of its economy, the US effectively holds a veto…
New Report Shows Working-Class Americans Live 7 Years Fewer Than Rich
"The massive income and wealth inequality that exists in America today is not just an economic issue, it is literally a matter of life and death," said Sen. Bernie Sanders…
Private Equity Firms Tighten Stranglehold on US, Angling for Boons Under Trump
Private equity has fingers in our homes, hospitals and jobs. Resisting it is crucial to our fight for a just society.
The Housing Loophole That Lets Wealthy Investors Raise Rents on Poor Tenants
As the U.S. struggles with a housing shortage, investors continue to exploit a gap in an affordable housing law to raise rents on 115,000 apartments. Congress has repeatedly failed to…
Will the Current Musk Coup Define Our Future?
Only if we don’t start really pushing to prevent the ongoing concentration of America’s wealth.