Class

The Most Popular Tax in History Has Real Momentum

The Most Popular Tax in History Has Real Momentum The Most Popular Tax in History Has Real Momentum

The visible success of the European Financial Transaction (a k a Robin Hood) tax should boost efforts to build support for such a tax in the US. 

May 5, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

What Cliven Bundy Learned From the Koch Brothers

What Cliven Bundy Learned From the Koch Brothers What Cliven Bundy Learned From the Koch Brothers

The real “takers” are the biggest corporations and banks, the richest Americans.

Apr 29, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Fast-Food CEOs Make 1,200 Times As Much As One of Their Workers—and They Want to Keep It That Way

Fast-Food CEOs Make 1,200 Times As Much As One of Their Workers—and They Want to Keep It That Way Fast-Food CEOs Make 1,200 Times As Much As One of Their Workers—and They Want to Keep It That Way

The food industry is now the most unequal sector in the American economy.

Apr 24, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter

Rural Counties Turn to Prisons for Economic Salvation

Rural Counties Turn to Prisons for Economic Salvation Rural Counties Turn to Prisons for Economic Salvation

With coal not paying the bills, West Virginia has turned to prison construction.

Apr 21, 2014 / Mychal Denzel Smith

A. Philip Randolph Was Right: ‘We Will Need To Continue Demonstrations’

A. Philip Randolph Was Right: ‘We Will Need To Continue Demonstrations’ A. Philip Randolph Was Right: ‘We Will Need To Continue Demonstrations’

Why we still need a “Freedom Budget for All Americans.”

Apr 15, 2014 / John Nichols

Thomas Piketty and Millennial Marxists on the Scourge of Inequality

Thomas Piketty and Millennial Marxists on the Scourge of Inequality Thomas Piketty and Millennial Marxists on the Scourge of Inequality

Capitalism’s new critics take on an economics run amok.

Apr 14, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Shenk

‘Bogus and Unconscionably High Fees’: How Tax Preparers Are Preying on Low-Income People

‘Bogus and Unconscionably High Fees’: How Tax Preparers Are Preying on Low-Income People ‘Bogus and Unconscionably High Fees’: How Tax Preparers Are Preying on Low-Income People

Stephen Black appears on Melissa Harris-Perry to discuss how predators set up shop and grab a cut of their victims’ tax refunds. 

Apr 14, 2014 / Melissa Harris-Perry

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Understanding the 1 Percent

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Understanding the 1 Percent Katrina vanden Heuvel: Understanding the 1 Percent

Katrina vanden Heuvel dissects the detachment of the ruling class on MSNBC's All in With Chris Hayes.

Feb 14, 2014 / Chris Hayes

Addressing Class at Yale

Addressing Class at Yale Addressing Class at Yale

A new Tumblr at Yale opens up a conversation about class, but what will it take to turn discussion into action?

Feb 4, 2014 / StudentNation / Diana Rosen and StudentNation

Our Impoverished Poverty Debate

Our Impoverished Poverty Debate Our Impoverished Poverty Debate

Fifty years after LBJ declared a War on Poverty, the United States ranks near the bottom in childhood poverty among all developed nations.

Dec 30, 2013 / The Editors

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