Along with terrorism, climate change, disease pandemics, and the prospect of persistently low economic growth, inequality has crept up the international policy agenda to become one of the most urgent and important issues of our time.

All four presidents from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton whose administrations’ histories have been published as part of the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program either faced a challenge or launched an initiative during their first year in office relating to the expansion of opportunity in the service of greater social and economic mobility.

Populism and scapegoating on both sides of the Atlantic

Tracy Steffes cautions that going local can exacerbate inequalities

David Dagan explains the partisan edge of the "new American localism"

Three ways our next president can facilitate local growth