When a billionaire chief executive says only poor people truly suffer for bad decisions, it lands as both a diagnosis of inequality and a confession about how power works. Palantir CEO Alex Karp has ...

$5 million. That’s the price tag on the so-called American Dream. Yes, you read that right. According to new research from Investopedia, it now costs about $5 million for a family of four to own a ...

As Congress cuts healthcare access to pay for tax cuts and poor Americans die earlier, billionaires invest in anti-ageing ...

A major experiment conducted across four U.S. cities showed that giving cash to parents of newborns didn’t help their children, undermining the idea that such programs could alleviate the effects of ...

Most people who grew up poor didn't get the same luxuries as everyone else. From low-quality schools to not-the-safest neighborhoods, poor people live in a state of discomfort that many don't ...

While it's true that many people who grow up experiencing poverty tend to be less financially stable later in life, there are still financial habits and frugal mentalities that can healthily follow ...

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. We are living in a new Gilded Age. The first, from roughly 1870 to 1890, was marked by dramatic ...

Earlier this month, I went thrifting, a habit many Gen Zers prefer over buying new. But as I flipped through the racks, I noticed prices have been creeping up. I pulled out a yellow tank top, likely ...

A recent study highlighted by The New York Times casts doubt on this progressive approach to helping struggling families. But the study is hardly definitive—and we’re missing the bigger picture. A ...