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

Flequer Vera, co-founder of the Sustainergy worker co-op, knows first-hand about exploitation in the American workplace.

Uber in Houston offered freedom – flexible hours, quick cash, and time to care for his young son. But that promise faded fast ...

But Congress has underfunded transit for years. And this is particularly true when it comes to operations funds — which are ...

Today, Black employees make up 18.7 percent of the federal workforce. This is no accident — it reflects decades of civil ...

Last year I was vacationing with some friends when we flagged a cab to our hotel. I was annoyed that the meter seemed to be running fast — $32 to travel three miles seemed excessive, but I handed my ...

The global trend towards extreme wealth and income concentration has dramatically strengthened the economic and political power of those individuals — overwhelmingly male — at the top. In the United ...

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 ...

House Republicans’ tax plan would expand a tax break in the 2017 tax reform for “pass-through” businesses that has overwhelmingly benefited high earners. “Pass-throughs” are entities structured so ...

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 ...