US income inequality
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Why Silicon Valley is embracing universal basic incomeIn a pilot study influential incubator Y Combinator will hand over cash monthly to 100 families in Oakland, California. What’s UBI’s payoff for tech entrepreneurs?
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Ex-McDonald's CEO suggests replacing employees with robots amid protestsEd Rensi mentions bringing in robots as thousands of McDonald’s workers demand a union and $15 an hour minimum wage at the shareholders meeting
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The excess stock is lowering US prices. But I can think of a few ways to fix that, starting with donating that cheese to people in needAmerica is drowning in surplus cheese. What should we do with it all?
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America's top CEOs pocket 340 times more than average workersAnalysis by the AFL-CIO union found that chief executive officers of the top 500 companies took home $12.4m on average while they exported jobs overseas
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Bill Clinton's emerging role in a Hillary presidency: economy tsarDemocratic frontrunner rules out cabinet position for former president but tackling income inequality has become priority amid trajectory of 2016 race
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'The state stole my raise': workers sue Alabama over 'racist' wage lawNine months ago Birmingham became first city in the Deep South to raise the minimum wage, then saw it overturned by law described as ‘a slap in the face’
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Silicon Valley subcontracting makes income inequality worse, report findsA new University of California study has found that subcontracted jobs have expanded rapidly, offering low wages to predominantly black and Latino workers
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Winter in the Hamptons: the hidden poverty of New York’s luxury escape – videoWork is scant in the Hamptons’ winter months. Its usual crowd of New York’s mega-rich are back home, leaving the area’s yearlong residents to scrounge for money and jobs
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We are New York's millionaires and we say: raise our taxesEach of us earns over $665K a year. We can afford to give more to help children in poverty, the homeless and people on low incomes
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Everyone under age 35 is struggling, but men are also grappling with not being able to measure up to antiquated gender expectationsAs millennials, we're all in dire straits. But I worry most about our men
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Silicon Valley talks a good game on ‘basic income’, but its words are emptyThe radical idea of handing cash to citizens regardless of whether they work has taken root in Europe. Now America’s tech elite is backing the concept – but why?
The 1% are recovering from 2008 recession while 99% are still waiting