Labor Day 2020 comes at a time of unprecedented racial, political, and economic upheaval in the United States. Earlier this summer, tens of thousands of workers nationwide walked off their jobs and ...

A year after the Supreme Court greenlit crackdowns on people living without shelter, homelessness has only gotten worse.

They call it resilience. We call it survival. But what we’re really doing is building something else entirely. Something they ...

This week, the D.C. Council voted to pause a wage increase related to Initiative 82, the 2022 ballot measure that ...

Last October, after months of hard work, we announced that we were forming a union with the Teamsters. It was exhilarating ...

The top tax rate wealthy Americans pay on their investment gains today runs barely half the top rate the rest of us pay on our wages. But that only begins to tell the story of how lightly taxed our ...

Increasing taxes on high income earners helped raise revenue without hampering the wealth of the millionaire class in Massachusetts and Washington, according to a new policy brief from the Institute ...

Union density has been in sharp decline since the 1970s and recently reached a low at 9.9 percent in 2024. Despite a recent uptick in union elections and increased enthusiasm for the labor movement ...

Several provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) are set to expire at the end of this year, including its cut of the top marginal income tax rate from 39.6 percent to 37 percent.

In February, the economist Gabriel Zucman posted an absolutely stunning graphic online that depicts the wealth of America richest 0.00001 percent as a share of our nation’s total household wealth. The ...

Republican leaders in Congress have been working feverishly over recent days to renew the rich people-friendly 2017 Trump tax cuts set to expire at this year’s end. Both the House and Senate have now ...

The cadre of billionaires in top cabinet positions in Donald Trump’s administration is a clear embrace of government by and for the wealthy. The ultra-wealthy have accumulated an unfathomable amount ...