Child care funding in the U.S. has long been insufficient for the need. Apparently, conservatives want people to work more ...

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol began “Operation Metro Surge” targeting the Twin Cities nearly two months ago. Since then, they have taken the lives of Renee ...

Real solutions will come from the bottom up rather than through elite gatherings like the annual World Economic Forum in ...

Trump’s gutting of workplace safety enforcement comes as many states have rolled back their own efforts. That puts young workers at risk.

Eleanor Roosevelt famously said that human rights must begin in “small places, close to home.” To speak to people’s everyday experiences in these places, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — ...

World leaders heading to the G20 summit should use this rare multilateral space to advance a more equitable and sustainable global economy.

The top 15 wealthiest billionaires aren’t the only ones doing well for themselves. Our analysis found that found that the number of U.S. billionaires increased from 813 with combined wealth of $6.7 ...

Bob Lord has been an Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow since 2013, based with our Program on Inequality and the Common Good. A veteran attorney, based in Phoenix, Bob has brought a special ...

In mid-September the Census Bureau released its latest report on Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States, current through 2011. Poverty as officially measured, the Census ...

Amazing things can happen when societies realize they don’t need an awesomely affluent. What sort of amazing things? Take what happened in the United States between 1940 and 1960, as economists ...

For decades, the federal government has allocated about four times as much funding to roadways as it has to public transit such as buses and subways. This policy choice has consequences for racial and ...