As a country, Americans have to find a way to keep our cities solvent. If large numbers of cities no longer have the necessary tax base, we have to f…

- Sasha Abramsky

Poverty became something one could see and experience firsthand, no matter where one was on the economic ladder; it became something you could viscer…

- Sasha Abramsky

Big cities like New York are thriving, economically, culturally, in terms of real estate values, and by a slew of other measures. Yet, at the same ti…

- Sasha Abramsky

Detroit is a fascinating place, because things are so bad there that the dystopia has almost become utopian. People know they can't rely on the state…

- Sasha Abramsky

I recognize that individuals and organizations with tremendous financial clout and open access to the political system in the post-Citizens United er…

- Sasha Abramsky

We're living through an era of higher income inequality than the country has experienced since before the Great Depression. Meanwhile, most people ar…

- Sasha Abramsky

Despite all of the civil rights gains of the past several decades, when it comes to economic opportunity, African Americans and Latinos still experie…

- Sasha Abramsky

You can't lift people out of poverty simply by tweaking the tax system, or by raising the minimum wage by a few cents, or by reducing student debt sl…

- Sasha Abramsky

I argue that in the long run, the US would be on a far more financially secure footing if we recalibrate how we spend about two-to-three percent of t…

- Sasha Abramsky