There was once a thriving Black middle class based on farm ownership. But during the twentieth century, the USDA helped erase that source of wealth.

Howard Schultz, Starbucks’s returning CEO, says the coffee chain is getting into scammy NFTs. But that’s nothing compared to the scam that corporations have been pulling on workers for decades now.

Esplanade Gardens was trumpeted as a way to build wealth for middle-class Black New Yorkers. But its crumbling infrastructure shows how the government gave up on affordable housing.

Why labor can’t compete with real estate

The pandemic widened the gaps between the haves and have-nots—thus sowing the seeds of the next pandemic.

Two years ago, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic. Here’s what we’ve learned—and refused to learn—as the virus rages on.

Simple overall stats don’t show the truth of the housing crisis.

An interview with Geoconda Argüello-Kline, who retired this month after 10 years leading the most successful private-sector union local in America

The message that could galvanize voters in the midterms is at Democrats’ fingertips. Why do they resist grabbing it?

A new administration report has great ideas, but only Congress can give labor real power, and the filibuster’s getting in the way.

“If we’ve already been lifting people out of poverty, why for heaven’s sakes would we want to throw them back in poverty?”

Monopoly power didn’t cause inflation. Pretending it did undermines the fight to revive antitrust.

The American Legislative Exchange Council is pushing cookie-cutter laws that could lock pension funds and taxpayers into losing deals—while propping up coal and other fossil fuel firms.

The Build Back Better Act includes a one-year extension of the child tax credit, but the clock is ticking.

Don’t be hoodwinked. It isn’t Joe Biden who’s making record profits and gouging U.S. consumers. That would be corporate America.

But like most of the tech industry, they’re actually in the business of collecting your personal data.

Throughout the negotiations over Biden’s Build Back Better bill, the senator has unerringly demanded changes that would harm his state’s residents.

Despite Marc Lore’s ambitions for Telosa, water wars seem more likely than flying cars in our dystopian near future.

The idea could be met with pushback from Democrats hoping to extend the credit permanently or through 2025.

The best economists right now are epidemiologists—and a psychologist in Texas who’s become the village explainer of the “Great Resignation.”