Class & Inequality

Class & Inequality, Politics

Meet the Bailout's New Slush Fund

The battle over the bailout—set to be delivered through a once-obscure Treasury Department mechanism called the Exchange Stabilization Fund—has only just begun.

Andrew Elrod, Mark Engler

Class & Inequality

Should There Be a COVID-19 Rent Strike?

While the government and some banks have announced mortgage moratoriums, they have not insisted that rent relief be passed on to tenants. Many renters don’t know what they will do come April 1, let alone May 1.

Mordecai Lyon

Class & Inequality

End Shareholder Primacy Once and For All

We face an economic crisis not least because the rules of corporate governance slight workers and preclude economic resiliency. We must reform them now.

Lenore Palladino

Class & Inequality, Politics

With a Uniquely Fragile Economy, Stimulus Is Not Enough

Our long-term goal must go well beyond the Senate bill to build a more resilient economy.

Mike Konczal, Felicia Wong

Class & Inequality

Step One in Fighting the COVID-19 Economic Crisis

We must act now to support families and businesses. Greatly expanding U.S. unemployment insurance is an obvious way to go—in part because the system is already up and running.

Arindrajit Dube

Class & Inequality, Science & Nature

Alone Against the Virus

Decades of neoliberal austerity will make it harder to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, more than ever, we must rebuild our social safety net and forge a New Deal for public health.

Amy Kapczynski, Gregg Gonsalves

Class & Inequality

Debtors of the World, Unite!

Debt’s ubiquity is a burden, but also an opportunity.

Hannah Appel

Class & Inequality

For Whom the Markets Toll

Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, and Henry Paulson still have not reckoned with the failures of neoliberal planning in the wake of the financial crisis.

Reed Hundt

Class & Inequality

The War Against the Poor Knows No Borders

The Trump administration’s sanctions against Iran and cuts to SNAP benefits are two sides of the same war that the rich are waging against the global poor.

Liz Theoharis

Class & Inequality

High Stakes Tests Aren't Better—And They Never Will Be

Accountability is important. But tests that tie school funding to student performance only make things worse.

Lelac Almagor

Class & Inequality

Taxing the Superrich

For the sake of justice and democracy, we need a progressive wealth tax.

Gabriel Zucman, Emmanuel Saez

Class & Inequality

Conservatives’ Newfound Interest in Dignified Work

They can give up free-market orthodoxy, but still can’t bring themselves to embrace labor.

Suresh Naidu

Class & Inequality

Thomas Piketty Takes On the Ideology of Inequality

Class & Inequality

Class & Inequality, Politics

Meet the Bailout's New Slush Fund

Class & Inequality

Should There Be a COVID-19 Rent Strike?

Class & Inequality

End Shareholder Primacy Once and For All

Class & Inequality, Politics

With a Uniquely Fragile Economy, Stimulus Is Not Enough

Class & Inequality

Step One in Fighting the COVID-19 Economic Crisis

Class & Inequality, Science & Nature

Alone Against the Virus

Class & Inequality

Debtors of the World, Unite!

Class & Inequality

For Whom the Markets Toll

Class & Inequality

The War Against the Poor Knows No Borders

Class & Inequality

High Stakes Tests Aren't Better—And They Never Will Be

Class & Inequality

Taxing the Superrich

Class & Inequality

Conservatives’ Newfound Interest in Dignified Work

American Racism in the Time of Plagues

Alone Against the Virus

Markets v. Lives

Thomas Piketty Takes On the Ideology of Inequality

With a Uniquely Fragile Economy, Stimulus Is Not Enough

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