On Our Radar

Here’s what might happen if Congress doubles the minimum wage.

The apartment has been banned in far too many places, deepening racial divides and driving up rents. Oregon is set to be the first state to fix that—and it won’t be the last.

Conservatives support freedom, which is why they should oppose job discrimination against L.G.B.T.Q. Americans.

Utah has one of the nation’s lowest rates of income inequality in part because of the Church of Latter-day Saints’ welfare system, but it also ranks dead last for economic equality for women.

Even so, capital requirements for some may rise.

On February 13, 1920, Carrie Chapman Catt stood triumphant before the opening session of the National Woman Suffrage Association convention and declared the organization’s decades-long mission finally accomplished.

As it enters its 11th year, America’s economic expansion is now the longest on record — a streak that has shrunk unemployment, swelled household wealth, revived the housing market and helped fuel an explosive rise in the stock market.

The struggle against poverty needs to be a collective fight.

Have Trump appointees put their fingers on the scale?

Public banking’s appearance in the Green New Deal resolution drafted by Ocasio-Cortez and Markey in February further cemented its potential as a tool to create a more stable and just economy—and one that can center concerns of the public, like environmental matters, in its operations.

The justices misrepresented the “pedigree” of the citizenship question.

We’re heading back toward the zero bound and may never leave.

Investor anxiety about a Trump administration push to overhaul housing finance is showing up in prices in the market for mortgage-backed securities.

Bank of America will end its association with companies that provide prisoner and immigrant detention services at both the state and federal levels. The move comes amid growing public concern about the nation’s border policies.

Employees and consumers, with the help of activist groups on social media, are targeting companies that are doing business with detention facilities for migrant children.