Maine Voices: COVID hits hard on the working poor

income inequality

Published
May 4, 2020

Maine Voices: COVID hits hard on the working poor

People who live paycheck to paycheck can't take the steps to protect their health that are available to their better-off neighbors.
Published
April 28, 2020

Commentary: Rich are getting richer, despite the pandemic

As billionaires' wealth continues to balloon, it’s time for them to pay their fair share in taxes.
Published
April 26, 2020

Insight: Reopening the economy after COVID

Deciding how and when to restart American businesses is ultimately a nonpolitical question that we should all help answer.
Published
April 24, 2020

Maine Voices: A real world is out there. It invites our attention

Campaigns – for president and Congress – are not bothering to acknowledge our critical situation or address its causes and remedies.
Published
March 15, 2020

Insight: Market crash could be silver lining in coronavirus response

If wealthy people weren't seeing their stocks lose value, we might still be downplaying the pandemic risk.
Published
March 6, 2020

Women thrive in Northeast U.S., languish across the South

The annual Bloomberg analysis measures factors such as labor-force participation, education, political representation, health care and corporate leadership.
Published
February 28, 2020

Commentary: What Michael Bloomberg will never understand

We need a leader who will work with those affected by greed, racism and sexism instead of discounting, dismissing or silencing them.
Published
November 24, 2019

Insight: Jimmy Hoffa casts a long shadow over unions

Through works like 'The Irishman,' the notorious Teamsters president still links organized labor in the public imagination with organized crime.
Published
October 17, 2019

Americans now need at least $500,000 a year to enter top 1%

The income needed to exit the bottom 99% of U.S. taxpayers hit $515,371 in 2017, according to Internal Revenue Service data.
Published
October 13, 2019

Insight: America’s greedy millionaires and billionaires

The Trump tax cuts helped the people who needed it least. And they are still begging for more.