Inequality: Government Is a Perp, Not a Bystander

Dean Baker Co-director, CEPR; author, ‘The End of Loser Liberalism:  Making Markets Progressive’ Posted: 12/23/2013 11:45 pm In his speech on inequality earlier this month, President Obama proclaimed that the government could not be a bystander in the effort to reduce inequality, which he described as the defining moral issue of our time. This left…

Across Generations, the Jobs Numbers Show We’re All in This Together

Richard (RJ) Eskow – Writer;Senior Fellow,  Campaign for America’s Future Posted: 09/10/2013 1:40 am We’re in the midst of the worst employment crisis in modern memory. Lackluster jobs reports like last week’s should remind us that the crisis will last a long, long time, unless we act. It would be tragic if superficial “improvements” created by…

50 Years After the March on Washington: Racial Economic Inequality Beyond Black and White

  The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a multiracial movement. And like 50 years ago, today many of the disparities — wealth, unemployment, and income — are not only experienced by African Americans, but exist in varied forms among all people of color. Unlike the African American population, the Hispanic population…