Economy / Business - OtherWords

Opportunity Shouldn’t Be About Luck

Cities and states are experimenting with “baby bonds” to narrow America’s yawning opportunity divide.

Too many lawmakers are happy to dole out subsidies for the rich and corporations while resisting pay increases for educators.

I borrowed modestly, worked on campus, and still had to skip meals to make loan payments — and I was one of the lucky ones.

One Chick-fil-A store tried paying drive-through workers in chicken sandwiches. It didn’t go over well.

We can have a strong job market and lower inflation — and we don’t need more painful interest rate hikes to do it.

But it needs to be a first step, not the last.

Real and lasting economic opportunities for Black families will come only through a serious national reckoning on race.

The OtherWords founder was a small-city mayor who traveled the world, an Army veteran who hated war, and above all a devoted citizen.

The pay gap between workers and CEOs at America’s largest low-wage employers is now 670 to 1. That’s obscene.

Health care giants aren’t just making care more expensive. They’re putting Americans in debt bondage.