As Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is inching her way to the left in support of the American wage earner, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) keeps leading the charge, the problem of ...

Rising income inequality is playing its part to depress state revenues, a new paper argues. {mosads}In its paper, Standard & Poor’s makes the case that state revenues have been cut roughly in half the ...

Many of you reading this have stood in line at Chipotle Mexican Grill. We know that its lines are notably long and somewhat intimidating. But how can these long lines act as such vivid metaphors for ...

Christopher Witko has received funding from the Russell Sage Foundation. When Democrats regained control of the U.S. House of Representatives, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., almost immediately took ...

High rates of poverty persisted in India through the first half century of Independence, a period of low growth, and high tax rates towards socialist redistribution of income. After the 1990s’ ...