On Our Radar

Excessive wealth disorder seems to be a issue among the top 0.01%, caused and influenced by raw and soft corruption, campaign contributions and being able to define the agenda.

In rich white Streeterville, Chicagoans can expect to live to 90. In poor black Englewood, it’s just 60 – the most divergent of any US city.

In recent months, the collection practices used by Navient Corp., one of the nation’s largest student-loan servicing companies with 12 million customers, has grown increasingly aggressive.

The Baby Boomers ruined America: the political ascendancy of the Boomers brought with it tightening control and stricter regulation, making it harder to succeed in America.

Elizabeth Warren, who earlier this year confirmed her intent to run for president in 2020, has an ambitious plan to advance entrepreneurs of color by starting a Small Business Equity Fund to provide grants to Black, Latinx, Native American and other minority entrepreneurs.

This house in Atlanta was sold three times in one year, a sign of exploding investor interest in starter homes that is reshaping the nation’s housing market and driving up prices.

As the dangers and costs of climate change rise, policymakers are facing painful choices about how to decide which communities to protect.

Americans who oppose reparations care more about responding to political expediency than about the emergency of inequality.

Opportunity zones are meant to spur new investment in poor areas. But Under Armour’s Kevin Plank is getting a tax break for investments that are not new and not in a poor tract. And Plank’s area was picked over neighborhoods that are actually poor.

Two decades after Rudy Giuliani tried to rid New York City of graffiti, the art form is flourishing—with unexpected consequences.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has hired Eric Blankenstein, the former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official whose racially charged blog posts sparked an uproar last year.

Silicon Valley is entering a new phase in its quest for diversity and inclusion in the technology industry. 

Opportunity zones are meant to spur new investment in poor areas. But Under Armour’s Kevin Plank is getting a tax break for investments that are not new and not in a poor tract. And Plank’s area was picked over neighborhoods that are actually poor.

There is much talk of a crisis, based on statistics such as this one, from a 2018 report by the Pew Charitable Trusts: Of the nearly 43 million households who rented their homes in the United States, 7.3 million — 17?percent — spend half or more of their monthly income on rent.

America’s birthday is fast approaching. But let’s not wait for July 4 to light the fireworks. There is another Independence Day on the horizon. Juneteenth marks what is arguably the most significant event in American history after independence itself—the eradication of American slavery.