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Trump Accounts are unlikely to reduce America's wealth gap. In a new @FortuneMagazine op-ed, @DarrickHamilton explains why: investment accounts multiply the wealth families already have, so those with less are left behind. Learn more: fortune.com/2026/07/16/tru…

Some New Yorkers fled the Jim Crow South, only for their homes to be stolen in the Jim Crow North. We're grateful to the Brooklynites who came to Weeksville Heritage Center to share their struggles with deed theft. Our stories are an antidote to the erasure of Black history.

The biggest beneficiaries of Trump Accounts are families who already have wealth. Our Senior Fellow @DarrickHamilton explains why the program's design rewards those who can afford years of additional tax-advantaged contributions.

@keds_economist @GregDaco @EYnews @FreightWaves smartly, @DarrickHamilton, the lead economist for the AFL-CIO union, said he remained concerned that even as output has grown “the share of national income going to labor is at a historic low.” and @keds_economist notes: "A good jobs number doesn’t make a strong labor market"

@TrevonDLogan And our article together :) theconversation.com/why-wealth-equ…

This #juneteenth reflect on how recent enslavement was in American history. My great grandfather was born enslaved in Mississippi. Slavery and Emancipation are not ancient history at all. #Juneteenth #AmericanHistory

At the 30th @AFLCIO Constitutional Convention with the great Deputy Mayor of Economic Justice of the great City of New York, @JulieSuLabor ! #Classic

Four years ago, I stood here to announce my support for building in Halletts Point hundreds of units of affordable and mixed income housing to tackle the housing and affordability crisis in our city.

Tomorrow is the annual conference at the Levy Institute. The 33rd of its kind in the 40 years since the Institute’s founding, it convenes leading voices in independent economic thought from around the world. We look forward to sharing the day’s insights. levyinstitute.org/events/event/l…

One week until our final Exploring Baby Bonds session! What if we supported families today and built wealth for the future? Join State Treasurer @MikePieciak from Vermont and national partners as we explore Vermont’s maternal health “Superbundle.”

Happening tomorrow !!!

When working people peacefully come together, we can stand up to the wealthiest bosses and the most powerful politicians. Let’s build worker power across the country! Join America’s unions at a #MayDay event near you: mobilize.us/aflcio/?q=May%…

@JFKii @ZohranKMamdani Appreciate you good brother!

Thanks to the Harlem D9 Votes Steering Committee for bringing Zohran Mamdani to talk Economics Housing Healthcare & Safety for Black Lives. This is just the beginning. jamesfeltonkeith.com

A proud honor to have moderated a Harlem town hall with the Honorable Zohran K. Mamdani, the mayor of the great city of New York

The U.S. has long championed civil & political rights—but economic rights remain unfinished. What would it take to make them real? Join us April 23 for a conversation connecting labor, racial justice & economic futures. event.newschool.edu/powerpurposepo…

As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate. That’s why we’ve been told for far too long that tax reform is politically infeasible, too complex, and too radical. Taxing billionaires is not radical. What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship — and where billionaires can in effect opt out of contributing to the society that made their success possible. 
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In the 1950s, one out of every three workers in this country carried a union card. Today, it’s fewer than one in ten. That decline didn’t happen by accident. It’s the result of decades of coordinated attacks by corporations that have grown richer while working people have been asked to settle for less. That’s the crisis we’re living through: deepening inequality, eroding stability, and a political system that too often answers to wealth instead of the will of the people. Union Now is changing that — rebuilding the power of working people from the ground up. Yesterday, alongside @BernieSanders, I was proud to stand with organizers and workers at the @UnionNow_ rally.