The findings suggest that when workers are free to advocate for higher wages and better benefits for themselves, it also benefits society as a whole.

In a 2023 study, our team looked at 145 countries, including the U.S., to understand the link between labor rights and inequality. We found evidence that strengthening collective labor rights may ...

The homepage for the 7th World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality hosted by the Humphrey School ...

Is higher education in India truly an equalizer or a privilege for the elite? Examining the profitability and equity.

Congress hasn’t raised the $7.25 an hour federal minimum wage since 2009. And politicians have crafted a system that taxes the fruits of that hard labor as much as 37 percent. The rich, on the other ...

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Count on one thing: if Mark Twain, the famed American author of “Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn,” were alive today, he ...

For more than four decades, Robert Reich has been ringing the alarm bell about rising inequality in America. He did it as a ...

Caso, Nicolás; Jørgen Carling; Mathias Czaika & Jessica Hagen-Zanker (2025) How Economic Inequalities Shape International Migration Aspirations: A Multilevel Analysis of Perceptions and Context, ...

I offer some hope this week to Municipal progressive elected officials who are despairing about how the horrible new ...

In 2024, CEOs at America’s leading companies saw pay increases that outpaced the wage growth of employees, widening pay ...