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Wealth Inequality
May 5, 2022
Dania Francis
,
Darrick Hamilton
,
Thomas Mitchell
,
Nathan Rosenberg
,
Bryce Wilson Stucki
How the Government Helped White Americans Steal Black Farmland
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.
June 22, 2021
Magazine
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
The Millionaires Who Want to Abolish Extreme Wealth
In an unequal economy, even some of the winners are unhappy.
April 15, 2021
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
Bernie Madoff Lives!
The man behind the world’s largest Ponzi scheme died at 82; the system that enabled his grift continues in his image.
March 31, 2021
Megan Evershed
How an Upper West Side Hotel Came to Embody the City’s Failure on Homelessness
For nearly a year, the men of the Lucerne hotel have seen the worst of the city’s self-described liberal residents. They’ve also exposed a decades-long policy failure in permanent housing.
March 26, 2021
Luis Feliz Leon
The Amazon Union Vote Is Ending in Bessemer. Workers Are Already Preparing for the Next Fight.
“It’s not just a hashtag for us. All things are definitely on the table.”
December 2, 2020
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
Who Gets to Recover From the Pandemic?
A “return to normal” is a comforting promise to the winners of the world.
August 6, 2020
Nick Martin
“Family Life Coaches,” Private Jets, and the One Percent’s Pandemic Economy
As the rest of the country bears the brunt of the coronavirus crisis, the wealthy are scrambling to protect their comfortable lives.
June 1, 2020
Chris Moody
Living in Your Car as a Pandemic Consumes Your City
A “safe parking lot” in San Diego is a haven and a holding pattern during the coronavirus lockdown and an ongoing housing crisis.
May 14, 2020
Magazine
Dean Baker
Building an Economy That Works Again
A practical blueprint for reform in the wake of the coronavirus shutdown
April 21, 2020
Magazine
Kanishk Tharoor
The Exclusivity Economy
How concierge dining, health, and travel services insulate the wealthy and hide soaring inequality
March 30, 2020
J.C. Pan
The Backstreet Boys Can’t Help You
Art is a gift during a pandemic. The Fox broadcast of a “Living Room Concert for America” was the smiling face of inequality in a crisis.
March 11, 2020
Bryce Covert
Can $500 a Month Change Your Life?
A California-based experiment in universal basic income considers the mundane, and potentially transformative, power of a little extra cash.
March 4, 2020
Nick Martin
Bloomberg Spent $233,333 an Hour to Lose the Presidency and Wage a Class War
The former New York City mayor’s failed campaign was an act of ritual humiliation—and an investment in himself.
March 4, 2020
J.C. Pan
Facing a Pandemic in the New Gilded Age
While the rich seek concierge care, workers without paid time off and insurance are left with few options but to punch in and hope for the best.
January 21, 2020
Malaika Jabali
The Shallow “Unity” of
The New York Times
’ Endorsements
The paper's editorial board framed its choices as being against a politics of division. But who exactly are they talking about?
March 18, 2016
David Dayen
Why the Poor Get Trapped in Depressed Areas
It’s harder than ever for the poor to simply pick up and move.
May 27, 2014
Danny Vinik
Pikettymania Must Stop: A Plea for Calm in the Debate Over 'Capital'
The book is neither gospel nor garbage
May 23, 2014
Danny Vinik
That Big Financial Times Story on Errors in Piketty's Data is Overrated
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