There’s Plenty of Wealth to Go Around — It Just Doesn’t
March 20, 2019 | We've "grown the pie" massively since the 1980s, but it hasn't resulted in ordinary Americans getting a bigger slice.
Articles by Bob Lord
Black America’s Vanishing Wealth Is Bad for All Americans
January 30, 2019 | The racial wealth divide gives billionaires more power over all of us. The answer? Reparations.
Innovation Used to Benefit Workers. Can It Again?
December 19, 2018 | Machines can make jobs better, but a tiny class of bosses uses them to make jobs disappear. It doesn't have to be this way.
Can the Next Congress Chase Down America’s Runaway Wealth?
November 20, 2018 | The last Congress ensured that America's wealth will concentrate ever more rapidly at the very top — unless the next one does something about it.
Men: We’ve Heard About Assaults. Speak Up About Them.
September 28, 2018 | Women who report assault deserve to hear that we believe them, and that we can back them up — because we've heard the other side.
America 2018: Even More Gilded Than America 1918
September 26, 2018 | Wealth is more concentrated now than it was in John D. Rockefeller's day.
How to Level the Playing Field for Workers — Even with Unions Hurting
July 11, 2018 | A federal jobs and income guarantee could protect workers the way unions once did.
Congress Made It Harder to Give Teachers Raises
May 9, 2018 | Under the new GOP tax law, states that pay teachers a living wage subsidize states that pay them poorly.