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Inequality
mind the pay gap
Mar. 24, 2024
Olivia Colman Calls Out 12,000% Pay Disparity “If I was Oliver Colman, I’d be earning a f*** of a lot more than I am.”
What Ending Legacy Admissions Won’t Fix Elite-college admissions reflect deep problems with the state of higher education.
By Sarah Jones
The Superyacht Market Is Shrugging Off the Loss of Russian Buyers Turns out there are now plenty of other billionaires looking for massive yachts to buy.
By Jeff Wise
Will Rotterdam Make Way for Jeff Bezos, Lord of the Seas? The billionaire and his oversize sailboat may be no match for a historic Dutch bridge.
By Sarah Jones
9/11: 20 years later
Sept. 9, 2021
9/11 and the Rise of the (Unionized) Security Officer How a group of unsung heroes fought for better working conditions.
By Sarah Jones
millennials
July 18, 2021
Will ‘the Great Wealth Transfer’ Trigger a Millennial Civil War? Boomers will bequeath more than $30 trillion by 2045. Some millennials will become beneficiaries of high housing costs and stock prices. Others won’t.
By Eric Levitz
The Limits of Wealth-Tax Populism Safeguarding democracy from inequality will require much more than soaking the superrich.
By Eric Levitz
Families of Color Are Now Facing an Economic Disaster The pandemic is making America’s existing racial inequalities worse.
By Sarah Jones
Nevada Sex Workers Are Getting Stiffed by Brothels, the Government — and COVID Barred from both working and receiving unemployment benefits, sex workers are struggling to survive the inequality of the socially distanced economy.
By Eve Peyser
trump tax returns
Sept. 29, 2020
Trump’s Returns Make Case for Funding the Tax Police The president’s taxes are full of evasion schemes that our underfunded IRS has failed to punish.
By Eric Levitz
inequality
Sept. 14, 2020
Study: Inequality Robs $2.5 Trillion From U.S. Workers Each Year If America’s level of income inequality had remained constant since 1970, the median U.S. worker would now make $100,000 a year.
By Eric Levitz
Congress Is Hanging Single Parents Out to Dry The $600 enhanced unemployment benefits are due to expire. A new report shows how much single parents need that money.
By Sarah Jones
Did America Set Public Schools Up to Fail? States underfunded public schools for years. COVID-19 is about to make things worse.
By Sarah Jones
American Workers Need Paid Leave, Fast Workers with new caregiving responsibilities need paid leave for an uncertain post-pandemic future.
By Sarah Jones
Racism Is a Working-Class Problem The Strike for Black Lives reminds America that racial justice and economic justice are linked.
By Sarah Jones
No One Should Be Surprised That America Abandoned the Elderly to Die 132,000 Americans have lost their lives to the pandemic. Almost 40 percent of them lived in nursing homes or assisted-living communities.
By Sarah Jones
COVID Has Sent Millions of Adult Zoomers Back Home The coronavirus recession has hit young Americans especially hard.
By Eric Levitz
Amazon’s Coronavirus Problem Is Worse Than It Let On A COVID outbreak in Minneapolis is much worse than the company has admitted.
By Sarah Jones
coronavirus
June 26, 2020
Essential Workers Are Still Dying From Coronavirus Trump wants life to go back to normal. But the virus is still killing workers.
By Sarah Jones
black lives matter
June 16, 2020
Corporate America Loves Increasing Racial Inequality You can support racial justice or economic policies that increase racial inequality — but not both.
By Eric Levitz
george floyd
June 2, 2020
We Are Asking The Police to Do too Much When the welfare state fails, all that’s left is violence.
By Sarah Jones
Just Give People Handouts Sometimes it’s not that complicated.
By Sarah Jones
McDonald’s Wants to Reopen Its Dining Rooms. Workers Say Not So Fast. Workers in 20 cities went on strike to protest the chain’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Sarah Jones
The Coronavirus Class War Workers aren’t the ones clamoring to reopen the economy — they’re protesting against bosses who take away hazard pay while they’re still dying.
By Sarah Jones
NYC DOH: Black and Latino Residents Dying at ‘Around Twice the Rate’ of Whites The city Department of Health announced that black and Latino residents are dying of COVID-19 at “around twice the rate of their white counterparts.”
By Matt Stieb
Workers Are No Longer Heroes, Kroger Concludes The grocery-store chain is ending “hero pay” nationwide.
By Sarah Jones
A Call Center Giant Is Responding to COVID-19, But Not Its Own Employees A federal contractor is making millions off the pandemic while workers struggle to stay safe.
By Sarah Jones
Are You Rich Enough to Survive This Pandemic? The vulnerable, the virus, and America’s willful blindness.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
in conversation
Apr. 27, 2020
Thomas Piketty Knew This Was Coming The scholar of inequality warned us that our economic systems couldn’t withstand a global catastrophe.
By David Wallace-Wells
The Coronavirus Is Radicalizing Workers The working class was already in crisis before the coronavirus. Now they’re angrier than ever.
By Sarah Jones
coronavirus
Mar. 30, 2020
Dear Rich People: Please Stop Hoarding Things Coronavirus is reinforcing social divisions that have existed for a long time.
By Sarah Jones
coronavirus
Mar. 27, 2020
Our Health-Care System Is Killing People A heavily privatized system is no match for a major public-health crisis like the novel coronavirus.
By Sarah Jones
coronavirus
Mar. 19, 2020
For Some Diabetes Patients, the Coronavirus May Turn a Crisis Into an Emergency The cost of insulin already forces some people with diabetes to ration their medicine. What will they do during a pandemic?
By Sarah Jones
coronavirus
Mar. 12, 2020
By Sarah Jones
The Coronavirus Puts the Class War Into Stark Relief Anyone can get sick, but some people have more at stake than others.
By Sarah Jones
Why Do People Hate Socialism But Love Bernie Sanders? It’s one of the more unusual paradoxes in American politics.
By Sarah Jones
michael bloomberg
Feb. 13, 2020
Bloomberg Defended Fingerprinting Food-Stamp Applicants As Recently As 2018 In the same 2018 talk, Bloomberg framed the minimum wage as an impediment to job creation.
By Sarah Jones
More Americans Are Going on Strike Inequality is increasing, and so are work stoppages. The two trends might be related.
By Sarah Jones
Trump’s Budget Clarifies the Election’s Stakes The president imagines himself a Robin Hood with the usual beneficiaries reversed.
By Sarah Jones
The Workers Who Sign Us Up For Obamacare Can’t Afford Health Care A federal contractor helps people sign up for Obamacare. But it pays poor wages, discourages unionization, and offers expensive health insurance.
By Sarah Jones
david brooks
Jan. 17, 2020
Bernie Isn’t Trying to Start a Class War. The Rich Are Trying to Finish One. David Brooks argues that workers in America are paid what their labor is worth, accidentally proving the opposite.
By Eric Levitz
the one percent
Jan. 10, 2020
By Sarah Jones
People Are Losing Loved Ones to a Health-Care System That Doesn’t Work A new Gallup poll shows deep inequities in the American health-care system.
By Sarah Jones
vision 2020
Nov. 11, 2019
Failed Candidate De Blasio Slams Bloomberg’s Candidacy If Bloomberg runs, he’ll do better than BDB did without trying very hard.
By Ed Kilgore
These 3 Policy Failures Are Killing the American Dream America is historically rich, yet its middle class is increasingly insecure. Here’s why.
By Eric Levitz
meritocracy
Sept. 30, 2019
Harvard’s Affirmative Action for Rich Whites Exposes Myth of Meritocracy Harvard’s competitive admissions process exists to maintain the prestige of the credentials it sells to the mediocre children of aristocrats.
By Eric Levitz
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