The income of the bottom 50% of Americans in 1978 was 20%. As of 2015 it was 12%.

Gorsuch wants the Supreme Court to ban abortion and ban assisted suicide. Here is a suggestion for how Democrats could defeat his nomination: by showing that he argued that Merrick Garland should have been confirmed.

I didn't support the campaigns in favor of confirming Garland, partly because I was sure Republican senators would ignore them, and because he's a "centrist" and corporatist, too right-wing for me to support. I agree he is much less bad than Gorsuch.

Exposing the Myths of Neoliberal Capitalism -- and why the troll is not likely to change it in the way that would help Americans.

Insecure work, often involving forcing workers to be "self-employed", impoverishes the state as well as the individual workers.

Part of the remedy for this is to stop basing the taxation of businesses on how much they pay to employees. The practice gives businesses a perverse incentive to have fewer employees. Regardless of how they achieve that, it is not what we want to incentivize.

The US racial wealth gap between blacks and whites has built up through generations of discrimination, and personal efforts such as education, working hard, and marriage are insufficient to overcome the effects.

43% of American children live in families that are barely able to afford basic needs. This fraction has increased since 2009.