California is nothing if not a land of contrast. It is a state of astounding economic might, yet it carries the highest poverty rate in the nation. It has more residents on the Forbes 400 list of ...

The American Dream has never felt further out of reach. And it’s not just because the house with the white-picket fence and the nanny to care for the children are unaffordable. They’re also, for many, ...

We put on a brave face, but the reality is our cost of living is out of control and the middle class is disappearing.

Venezuela holds the most oil reserves in the world but suffers from economic crisis and political setbacks due to mismanagement, subsidies, and over-dependence on oil exports.

Nicolas Maduro's misrule was so chronically disastrous, seven million Venezuelans fled - but as the economy failed and the US ...

A Stratford educator plays a classic '60s hit during a holiday party, and soon finds himself debating the state of the nation ...

Thanks to Wall Street bankers, tech-company innovators and dreamers of all sorts who want to live in this city, Mamdani has a ...

In a world engrossed with wars and tariffs, who will focus on growth or poverty reduction? The common person is becoming ...

People criticize capitalism. A recent Axios-Generation poll says, "College students prefer socialism to capitalism." ...

In 2019, when Joe Biden was running for president, he claimed that “almost half” of Americans were living in poverty. His campaign cited numbers from the Poor People’s Campaign, which argued that 43 ...

Capitalism makes poor people richer. Former Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) calls capitalism “slavery by another name.” Rep.