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How Much Has Inequality Cost Workers?

This has been a matter of speculation. But after this important new RAND study, we have a number. Fifty trillion. With a t.

By Nick Hanauer

It’s Time for a Debt “Jubilee”

Why freeing American households and businesses from crippling private debt would be a boon to the economy.

By Richard Vague

Give the People the Law

Today in most of America, helping someone use the law is illegal unless you're a lawyer. These restrictions damage democracy. The case for legal empowerment.

By Vivek Maru

We Need a Public Health Revolution

Want to support pandemic preparedness? Change the way we finance public health in America.

By Harold Pollack

The Chinese Military Threat Is Real

Instead of ignoring it, progressives should offer their own proposals to address it.

By Jacob Stokes