How Can We Serve Our Public Servants?
A federal program lets promising and indebted college grads pursue careers in the public interest.
Pull Yourself Up by Your Bread Bags
The rules are stacked against most of us.
Does This Definition Make Me Look Rich?
No statistical contortion can hide the growing divide between the 1 percent and everyone else.
Report: Inequality in the Social Security Debate
How benefit cuts would impact health industry CEOs versus home health aides.
The Dropped Ball
While the White House and much of the media spun the hurried late-night move as a victory for the middle class, it was a win paid for with new tax cuts worth hundreds of billions of dollars for America’s wealthiest families.
Social Security: It Ain’t Broke
It’s a basic part of what makes America run, like our national highway system.
The Invisible Hand Won’t Stop Inequality in Its Tracks
We’ll have more economic and climate disasters on Sandy’s scale unless our political systems intervene.
Record Poverty Persists While Gap Between Rich and Rest of Us Increases
Sadly, those who “occupied” Wall Street and city squares across the country in 2011, were right: All of the income gains have concentrated at the top, while the rest of us saw a deterioration or stagnation in our wages and income.
Low-Wage Nation
Poverty and inequality are threatening our democracy.
Better Public Schools Require a Stronger Safety Net
School segregation by class is the norm in the United States.
Paul Ryan’s 2013 Budget Slashes Social Safety Net, Gives Tax Breaks to the Rich
Paul Ryan’s 2013 budget shows not only that the GOP is wildly out of touch with average Americans, but that they lack the ability to lead us anywhere but off a cliff.
The Real Social Security Crisis
It may be difficult to face facts in an election year, but the fact is that Social Security retirement benefits are just too low.
Karen Dolan Weighs in on Romney’s Latest Gaffe
The “ample safety net” that Mitt referenced during an interview with CNN’s Soledad O’Brien would be shredded if his policies were to be enacted.
Runaway Spending Cuts
The people who can least afford it are bearing the brunt of Washington’s austerity.
Chained COLAs and the Battle over Social Security
The supercommittee shouldn’t have considered this unreasonable, unprincipled, and unfair cost-cutting plan.