This week, the D.C. Council voted to pause a wage increase related to Initiative 82, the 2022 ballot measure that ...

But Congress has underfunded transit for years. And this is particularly true when it comes to operations funds — which are ...

The global trend towards extreme wealth and income concentration has dramatically strengthened the economic and political power of those individuals — overwhelmingly male — at the top. In the United ...

Today, Black employees make up 18.7 percent of the federal workforce. This is no accident — it reflects decades of civil ...

Flequer Vera, co-founder of the Sustainergy worker co-op, knows first-hand about exploitation in the American workplace.

Uber in Houston offered freedom – flexible hours, quick cash, and time to care for his young son. But that promise faded fast ...

Republican leaders in Congress have been working feverishly over recent days to renew the rich people-friendly 2017 Trump tax cuts set to expire at this year’s end. Both the House and Senate have now ...

An income tax rate of over 100 percent would be hard for anyone to sustain. At a rate a smidge over 100 percent, our deepest pockets might be able to get by if they drew down their wealth or borrowed ...

Inequality has been on the rise across the globe for several decades. Some countries have reduced the numbers of people living in extreme poverty. But economic gaps have continued to grow as the very ...

Americans these days don’t much like billionaires. Our ultra-rich, Americans overwhelmingly believe, aren’t paying enough in taxes. Polling earlier this month found that nearly three-quarters of the ...

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 ...