Planet Money recently published a piece titled "The Labor Economics of Alien and Its Lessons for Inequality on Earth." It ...

Behind the acid blood and jump scares of the Alien franchise is an even more insidious horror: a single employer with ...

If you genuinely believe that we are all, and that we must all be, equal before the law, then you cannot be in support of ...

Today’s state of extreme economic inequality is a problem best approached with science — using it to make specific measurements, identify root causes, and develop workable solutions. Archaeology is ...

Voters in Alaska, Arkansas and South Dakota all replaced their Democratic senators with Republicans on Tuesday. Those same voters raised the minimum wage in their states. In Nebraska, 65 percent of ...

In this lesson, students will watch a video from Democracy Now! about the recent Poor People's Campaign march in Washington, D.C. and answer questions about the aims of the movement and the way that ...

TEFL handout aimed at advanced students based around the video Wealth Inequality in America. Activity mainly focused on vocabulary building and listening practice There is also a second version of ...

As the Northern Hemisphere slowly emerges from the dark days of winter, we welcome the extra hours of daylight. In Emily Raboteau’s New York City neighborhood, a different kind of daylighting may ...

I don’t usually cover hard-luck sob stories, but this one... well, it is so deeply touching you might have such an emotional response it will make you cry. Or, like me, want to throw up. It’s not ...

The Netherlands is admired for its progressive policies, but wealth inequality persists. Why haven’t taxes closed the gap? This video explores the Dutch economy’s lessons on the limits of taxation.