Today is Equal Pay Day, a symbolic and sad holiday invented in the ‘90s to remind us yearly of how little women are paid for their labor in comparison to men. A few weeks ago, ESPN published a list of the highest-paid public employees in each state, as of 2017, along with their salaries during that year. (You can see…

According to survey conducted by Bank of America, the bank that is now charging its poorest customers a monthly fee just to maintain a checking account, 16 percent of millennials have $100,000 or more in savings.

The New York Times reports that a group of Senate Democrats is helping the Republican effort to roll back the Dodd-Frank bank regulations signed by President Obama in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The new proposal would raise the threshold for extra regulatory scrutiny from $50 billion in assets to $250…

The United States is one of the wealthiest countries on earth. The small percentage of people who hoard that wealth are likely to have a very good year. The markets are booming with no end in sight, and the Republican tax plan is already doing what it was designed to do: entrenching the wealth and power of large…

It’s an unfortunate reality that it requires money—and lots of it—to be a power player in mainstream American politics, and Democrats are becoming intimately acquainted with that reality as they trail GOP counterparts in fundraising despite racking up a string of recent electoral victories.

Before the 2008 economic recession hit, Prince George’s County was one of the wealthiest majority-black counties in America. After the U.S. housing market went into a death spiral, the Maryland county became one of the areas hit hardest by the subprime lending crisis. Between 2012 and 2013, P.G. County saw a 50…

Bank of America hit me with my first overdraft fee a few weeks after I deposited my first check. It was a smoothie from Jamba Juice that did me in.

The first year of the Trump administration has not been, how shall we say, “good,” not even for the baddies, and especially not for Congressional Republicans. There are no signature legislative achievements, or even many medium, appetizer-sized legislative achievements. They managed to confirm a Supreme Court justice,…

“There is no such thing as public money, only taxpayer money.” — Margaret Thatcher, 1983

Item: Kay Kirkpatrick, a Republican, recently beat a Democratic challenger in a special election for Georgia’s 32nd State Senate District. It was a comfortable victory, though not quite as comfortable as it ought to have been, according to Daily Kos’s David Nir. The Democratic share of the vote, he says, grew…

Ivanka Trump would like you to imagine a table.

Because abortions are tax deductible.

Wages have been stagnant for young workers in the United States for the last two decades. Most Americans have less than $1,000 in savings to fall back on in the event of some unforeseen catastrophe—an emergency room visit or just a month of too few shifts. The federal minimum wage has been locked in at $7.25 for the…

On Equal Pay Day, I asked women how they learned they were making less than a man with the same job. A few patterns emerged, which is one of the reasons we should share stories like this in the first place.

Lilly Ledbetter said she found out she was making less than the men she worked with at the Goodyear Rubber & Tire Company after someone dropped her an anonymous note. A friend of mine who for years worked at a progressive nonprofit—one you’ve definitely heard of and probably have warm feelings about!—made the…