Matthew Lichtblau

• Economy

In today’s divisive sociopolitical climate, the subsidization of private education in the United States has become yet another polarized, hot-button topic. Specifically, under the leadership of current Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the issue of ...

• Economy

Wage theft is a corrosive workplace pandemic. Simply put, the issue of wage theft refers to means by which employers fail to pay their workers the full wages they are legally owed. Wage theft takes many forms, and has become increasingly prevalent an...

• Economy

In modern capitalism, the rich getting richer has become a regrettable truism; nowhere is this undeniable truth more evident than in the United States’ current tax policy. From the late 20th century onward, overall tax rates on the richest 400 hous...

• Economy

In the midst of the country’s perennial discourse on such policy issues as health care, climate change, and gun control, the question of reparations for slavery has emerged as an unlikely, hotly contested entrant into the contemporary political con...