United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol began “Operation Metro Surge” targeting the Twin ...

Child care funding in the U.S. has long been insufficient for the need. Apparently, conservatives want people to work more ...

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The deep and persistent racial wealth divide will not close without bold, structural reform. It has been created and held in place by public policies that have evolved with time including slavery, Jim ...

Income includes the revenue streams from wages, salaries, interest on a savings account, dividends from shares of stock, rent, and profits from selling something for more than you paid for it. Unlike ...

The sex-trafficking scandal surrounding the late Jeffrey Epstein already has tarnished the reputations of prominent politicians, businessmen, and the British royal family. Now it’s casting a dark ...

Systemic racism has contributed to the persistence of race-based gaps that manifest in many different economic indicators. The starkest divides are in measures of household wealth, reflecting ...

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 ...

Many Americans are still experiencing the sticker shock they first faced two years ago when inflation hit its peak. But if inflation is down now, why are families still feeling the pinch? The answer ...

I’ve been a student of inequality for a long time—as a curious child and later as a sociology professor. Eventually, I left academia and came to work at the Insight Center for Community Economic ...

The growing concentration of wealth and power is distorting philanthropy, which is meant to serve the common good. Wealth and philanthropic power is concentrating in fewer hands, posing an immense ...