I want to know what’s going to happen with the farm workers,” she said, through a translator. “Are you going to include us in this?” Bhandary-Alexander said the hearing “couldn’t have been any better,” as a way to connect policy issues with individual narratives. The board heard from economic

How the single most important solution to economic inequality isn’t an economic policy, it’s tackling racism.

The scheme to use race to divide Americans who would otherwise be united in their economic goals is the best-kept secret in American politics.

When we agreed to help reform the NYPD’s stop and frisk practice in the landmark class action Floyd v. the City of New York, we knew we were taking on a great responsibility.

This post was first published on Debt & Society. With the 2016 Presidential election bringing renewed attention to rising college costs, UC Berkeley researchers have just released a groundbreaking study on broad and growing financial inequalities in U.S. higher education. Entitled “The

This piece was originally posted on the blog of the Movement Strategy Center

Demos, a public policy organization, just released a brief about the need for paid family leave in New York.

The idea of a property-owning democracy is no longer the reality in the United States. Edward Wolff finds that the wealthiest 10 percent own 90.9 percent of all stocks and mutual funds, 94.3 percent of financial securities but only 26.5 percent of the debt. For the middle class, their home makes up

The human tragedy of Flint, Michigan is agonizing. Thousands of children have been subjected to lead and other chemical poisoning, not to mention adults, just to save a few dollars in a process driven by raw politics and underlying racism.

Dr. King’s last campaign brought him to Tennessee to protect the rights of public sector workers to unionize.