Millennial » Economic Justice

David Leonhardt writes: The extreme redistribution of income — upward — has multiple causes. Some of them, like technological change, stem mostly from private-sector forces. But government po...

https://millennialjournal.com/2019/02/11/its-time-to-reverse-decades-of-extreme-redistribution-to-the-rich/

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Historian Rutger Bregman told those in attendance that they need to talk about billionaires paying their fair share in taxes, if they really care about justi...

https://millennialjournal.com/2019/01/31/historian-tells-billionaires-at-davos-talk-about-taxes-not-philanthropy/

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York is calling for a living wage, saying the minimum wage is too low: New Yorkers are now thoughtfully considering a proposal from Gov. Cuomo to raise the minimum w...

https://millennialjournal.com/2016/02/26/cardinal-dolan-raise-the-wage/

At its core, the whole life movement is dedicated to protecting the life and dignity of all people. It is rooted in a belief in the innate dignity and worth of every single human being. Each huma...

https://millennialjournal.com/2016/02/03/what-is-the-whole-life-movement/

Millennial co-founder Christopher Hale has a new article at Crux. He writes: In an August 2014 Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Ryan apologized for using the language of “makers and takers”...

https://millennialjournal.com/2015/11/06/paul-ryan-should-take-the-popes-words-to-heart/

via Crux: Pope Francis on Wednesday backed equal pay for equal work for women, calling it a “Christian duty” to fight to make sure that women receive equivalent compensation for doing the sam...

https://millennialjournal.com/2015/04/29/pope-francis-calls-for-equal-pay-for-equal-work/

Everybody knows that guy…the guy that brings a bag of chips to the potluck. Don’t be that guy. Why? Because everyone else at the potluck made their grandma’s famous German potato salad, cal...

https://millennialjournal.com/2014/11/05/bringing-chips-to-the-potluck-taxation-and-inequality-in-the-american-system/

The USCCB’s 2014 Labor Day statement follows in Pope Francis’ footsteps. The statement highlights those who have been left behind as the economy has recovered from the Great Recession: Diggin...

https://millennialjournal.com/2014/09/02/labor-day-2014-rejecting-an-economy-of-exclusion/

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Mercy, Part I by Michael Sean Winters: “Most of us Christians grew up with the idea that the God of the Hebrews was an angry God. Certainly,...

https://millennialjournal.com/2014/09/01/around-the-web-58/

Millennial had the opportunity to interview Ralph McCloud, the director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the official domestic anti-poverty agency of the USCCB, on some of the impo...

https://millennialjournal.com/2014/08/27/race-economic-justice-and-ferguson-an-interview-with-cchds-ralph-mccloud/