How tech’s richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse. Silicon Valley’s elite are hatching plans to escape disaster – and when it comes, they’ll leave the rest of us behind

How Rising Inequality Has Widened the Justice Gap. By Robert H. Frank . Aug. 31, 2018. Rising inequality has harmed low-income families not only by depriving them of a fair share of society’s income growth, but also in a more specific way: It has stacked the legal system even more heavily against them.

The Charts That Show How Big Business Is Winning. By David Leonhardt

How Tech Companies Conquered America’s Cities. By Farhad Manjoo June 20, 2018. I’m not saying America’s cities are turning into dystopian technocapitalist hellscapes in which corporations operate every essential service and pull every civic string. But let’s take a tour of recent news from the metropolises.

Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Washington, December 15, 2017

8 Million People Are Working Illegally in the U.S. Here’s Why That’s Unlikely to Change. Four undocumented immigrants have recently come forward to reveal they have worked at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.Four undocumented immigrants have recently come forward to reveal they have worked at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. By Miriam Jordan Dec. 11, 2018

Homelessness Rises Slightly Despite Strong Economy, Federal Report Finds A homeless man helps build a tent city in Seattle. The rates of homeless people have risen sharply in high-rent cities like New York and Seattle. A homeless man helps build a tent city in Seattle. The rates of homeless people have risen sharply in high-rent cities like New York and Seattle. By Glenn Thrush Dec. 17, 2018