"These cuts to lifesaving safety net programs and critical infrastructure, are not meant to improve the lives of everyday ...

This anniversary provides an opportunity for us to reacquaint ourselves with their history and to recommit ourselves to the ...

The working class today is much more complex and diverse than the white, male, manufacturing archetype often evoked in popular narratives.

No metric more powerfully captures the persistence and growth of economic inequality along racial and ethnic lines than the racial wealth gap.

Why a return to a debt-free system of public universities and colleges would help revive the promise of affordable higher education regardless of one’s family income.

The freedom to vote is America’s most important political right outside of the original Bill of Rights, and it is also the most hard-won right. In the early years of our republic, only white ...

Over the last ten years, a growing number of cities and states passed laws limiting the use of credit checks in hiring, promotion, and firing. Lawmakers are motivated by a number of well-founded ...

Campaign finance laws protect our democracy from corruption and preserve the integrity of our elections. These rules governing the use of money in politics were in a sorry state before Citizens United ...

“Being poor is running in place.” Author John Scalzi wrote this about his own experience of growing up in poverty. Today it is not only poor families but many middle class families who are furiously ...

Yet, despite lower rates of college completion, young Black households (ages 25-40) are far more likely to have student debt. Over half (54.4%) of all young Black households have student debt, ...

MYTH: Expansion will undermine the Court’s legitimacy and politicize the institution. Public trust in the U.S. Supreme Court is already deeply undermined. More than 2 decades of divisive decisions ...