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After getting the First Amendment supremely wrong in Citizens United, the Supreme Court now faces its next money in politics case. In McCutcheon v. FEC, the challengers are attacking a law that says that no one person can contribute over $123,000 directly to federal candidates, parties, and

Washington DC needs jobs. When D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray made this point at a press conference this week, he may not have realized he was making a strong case in favor of the Large Retailer Accountability Act.

There are a bunch of good, practical arguments for giving low-wage workers a pay hike -- like the fact that putting more money in the pockets of these workers would spur consumer demand and economic growth. But here's another strong point that you don't hear much about: Reducing wage inequality is

I've written a lot lately about how this country has given up on school integration and left millions of kids of color concentrated in the nation's worst public schools with few white classmates. One of the groups who should be most worried about this resegregation are white Baby Boomers. Why

The top one percent captured 95 percent of the income growth of the recovery. That’s just one depressing lowlight in Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez' 2012 update on the fortunes of the top 1 percent.

It's disturbing that American schools remain deeply segregated by race more than half a century after Brown v. Board—given all we know about the damaging effects of segregation on kids. What's even more disturbing, though, is that U.S. schools are more segregated now than they were twenty year ago

The labor market recovery remains fragile, especially for African-Americans.

I’m pleased to be here today to testify on House Bill 1744, “An Act regulating the use of credit reports by employers.”

The odds seem pretty high that a real live economic progressive, namely Bill de Blasio, will become the next mayor of New York City. That would be a big deal, since New York's mayor is a national figure and inequality is arguably our most pressing national problem. As Eric Alterman wrote recently

The American middle class has been in trouble for decades, but this was not obvious until the recession of 2008 because consumer purchases held up. How was that possible? The simple answer is that financiers devised ways to loan money that severed the link between profits and middle-class wellbeing.