| Oct 10, 2018 | Economy / Business|Editors PicksThe federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up in nearly 10 years. Yet with a stroke of his pen, Jeff Bezos of Amazon raised the wages of hundreds of thousands of the company’s lowest paid workers. In an age of extreme income inequality, this is leap in the right...
| Oct 9, 2018 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyOn a recent night in Richmond, Virginia, speaker after speaker came forward to talk about the multidimensional reality of poverty. The setting was a hearing held by the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. “I’ve been working for years as a...
| Aug 29, 2018 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyAs a sociology professor in community college, I have my students play Monopoly. Only, I give them a special, rigged version. There are five players. The wealthiest begins with $5,500, all of the railroads, and the two most valuable properties (Boardwalk and Park...
| Jul 2, 2018 | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyThis summer, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip Alston presented his observations on the state of international poverty to the UN Human Rights Council. The country at the center of his most recent report wasn’t a developing one — it was the United States....
| Jun 13, 2018 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyNearly seven years ago — I know, wow — the Occupy Wall Street movement began highlighting the divide between the top 1 percent and the bottom 99 percent. Since then, it’s become common knowledge that income inequality in the United States is high. But there’s more to...
