There’s an empty stretch of field off highway 141 in Colorado that used to be the perfect American town. Small houses with white picket fences boasted big flower gardens. Kids played kick the can in the streets, rode their bikes, splashed in swimming pools. On Sundays, they might have watched an Elvis movie on TV. The rent was cheap, the fathers all worked, the mothers stayed at home.

Last year it was 8 men, then down to 6, and now almost 5. While Americans fixate on Trump, the super-rich are absconding with our wealth, and the plague of inequality continues to grow. An analysis of 2016 data found that the poorest five deciles of the world population own about $410 billion in total wealth. As of 06/08/17, the world's richest five men owned over $400 billion in wealth. Thus, on average, each man owns nearly as much as 750 million people.

A new report reveals the extent of the “justice gap” experienced by low-income Americans. By Debra Cassens Weiss.

Photographer Benny Lam has documented the suffocating living conditions in Hong Kong’s subdivided flats, recording the lives of these hidden communities.

A Tribune investigation finds [Illinois] Cook County's property tax system has given financial breaks to affluent homeowners while punishing those who have the least. By David Dayen.

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Richard Rothstein’s magisterial new book tracks how the government segregated America—and how new policy, and new education, could save us. By Peter C. Baker.

And the Trump administration’s school-choice policies will only make the problem worse. By Edwin Rios.

A new book looks at the triumphs and challenges of the renegade housing movement. By Lauren Oyler.

Understanding the Vacuity. By Fred Reed.

Under pressure to balance the budget and align with Trump, the House GOP has its eye on food stamps, welfare and perhaps even veterans’ benefits. By Rachael Bade and Sarah Ferris.

You can work full time but not have the money to fix your teeth – visible reminders of the divide between rich and poor. By Mary Jordan, Kevin Sullivan.

The former president and Vermont senator spoke at an event at the Carter Center on Monday night. By Zaid Jilani.

Life expectancy is now declining for middle-aged white Americans, especially those with a high school education or less. By Joseph Stiglitz.

The MIT economist Peter Temin argues that economic inequality results in two distinct classes. And only one of them has any power. By Gillian B. White.

You often don’t realize a revolution is brewing until it’s upon you. By Damon Linker.

In the lasting debate over Thomas Piketty’s book on outsized returns on capital, a significant fact has been obscured: If you exclude land and housing, capital has not risen as a share of the U.S. economy. If you're surprised, you're not the only one. Intuition suggests this capital-output ratio should be higher today than it was in the early 1900s. Yet, in the U.S., capital excluding land and housing has been roughly constant as a share of the economy since the mid-1950s, and is lower today than at the turn of the 20th century.

The party has harmed millions of their own former constituents. If they change course, they can reverse their losses. By Thomas Frank.

Wondering how reporters missed the Trump wave? We crunched the data on where they work and how fast it’s changing. The results should worry the country. By Jack Shafer and Tucker Doherty.

In this year’s unpredictable campaign, Emmanuel Macron’s business-friendly liberalism could be enough to spare France from the National Front. But in the long run, it’s no safe bet against the populist far right. By Cole Stangler.