By Sarah Anderson Inequality.org Big Business fought hard to kill a new regulation requiring corporations to disclose the gap between their CEO and median worker pay. For eight years after the regulation became law, corporate lobby groups fought to…
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GOP Tax Plan Is Igniting a Movement for a Moral Economy
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By Sarah Anderson Inequality.org If you’re expecting a gift card from your boss as an end-of-year bonus, enjoy it this year because you probably won’t get one in 2018. The Senate tax bill would ban such rewards. Why?…
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An anti-poverty effort created jobs but didn’t fix inequality
Nov 20, 2017, 9:55 AM 0
By Alex Shashkevich Futurity New research examines former President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty initiative in the 1960s and its legacy in American cities. In an article in the Journal of Urban History, historian Claire Dunning argues that…
By Josh Hoxie ncluido Many people see progress on racial equity in the U.S. as a steady march forward, in which people of color become more equal with their white counterparts as the years go by. Those are…
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Unlike adults, teens pitch in despite income inequality
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By Rachel Harrison Futurity New research links income inequality with greater civic engagement among young people—particularly among young people of color and those of lower socioeconomic status. The findings, published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, contradict past research…
By Clifton B. Parker-Stanford Futurity America’s cities are dividing themselves into two distinct groups, with college-educated workers clustering in places that less-educated people cannot afford. A new paper reports that economic well-being inequality in American metropolitan areas increased 67…
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Video: Think you don’t make enough dinero? New film confirms it with big wake-up call!
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LatinaLista — “The U.S. is nearly the most wealth-unequal country in the entire world.” “A single top income could buy housing for every homeless person in the U.S.” “The poorest 47 percent of Americans have no wealth.” “The 400…
LatinaLista — As a result of the worst economic crisis to hit the country since the 1930s, the nation’s eyes were pried open with the realization that not everyone was suffering in the same way. Namely, the wealthy hardly…
