New research from the Center for Working-Class Politics shows that progressive economic policies can bring working-class ...

Consider the Los Angeles Unified School District. Today, its reserves stand at $6.4 billion, nearly 60 percent of its 2024 budget. Credit raters praise its restraint. Yet these savings have come at a ...

Cutting taxes for the wealthy and businesses and paying for it with Medicaid cuts will not have a positive impact on growth ...

The new law slashes vital services to pay for tax cuts for the rich and massive hikes in military and deportation funding.

The private jet lobby is pushing hard for a massive tax break for billionaires and centi-millionaires that use the most polluting form of transportation on the planet. Legislation rapidly moving ...

In the report we analyze eight different styles of worker organizing that work with or outside of the NLRB system. Five of the strategies and tactics listed have been around for decades and have ...

In February, the economist Gabriel Zucman posted an absolutely stunning graphic online that depicts the wealth of America richest 0.00001 percent as a share of our nation’s total household wealth. The ...

The simple solution to this demographic and fiscal challenge? We could move to once and for all end the special Social Security privileges that America’s most affluent continue to enjoy. Elon Musk and ...

The Musk-led effort is neither a money-saving nor fraud-finding operation — it's an ideologically driven assault.

About three score years ago, on a January Sunday afternoon in 1967, some of us gathered in college dorm basement lounges to watch pro football’s historic first “Super Bowl.” A good bit has changed ...

The new year has begun with old news: The world is continuing to become colossally more unequal — with the United States leading the way. In 2024, wealth trackers at Bloomberg have just reported in a ...

At the close of 2024 there were 813 billionaires in the United States with a combined total wealth of $6.72 trillion, according to an analysis of the Forbes wealth data. The total number of ...