What Can We Afford: A Tour Across American Inequality & A Search For The Road Ahead

A reported road trip across the American economic landscape, documenting the ties between workers’ financial struggles, big business, and broken markets, from The New York Times economics reporter Talmon Joseph Smith.

Can America actually afford all that its people and workers deserve? The pro-democracy coalition in the United States has mostly unified around social progressivism, but a trickier question, for both everyday workers and elites, is whether to commit the country to economic prog...