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Inequality
Rage Drove the Google Walkout. Can It Bring About Real Change at Tech Companies? The tools of technology can stop a workers’ revolution as surely as they can help start one.
Howard Schultz Wants a President Who Will Tell Billionaires Their Favorite Lies The mogul is sick of the left’s impossible promises. Which is why he’s promising that we can reduce inequality without raising taxes on the rich.
Elizabeth Warren to Propose Spreading the Wealth Around A 70 percent tax on incomes over $10 million isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A 2 percent tax on the wealth of the super-rich.
alexandria ocasio-cortez
1/24/2019
AOC Thinks Billionaires Are a Threat to Democracy. So Did Our Founders. The idea that democracy and billionaires are incompatible might seem radical to conservatives. But to America’s founders, it seemed like common sense.
The Right’s Case Against Soaking the Rich Is Dirt Poor Conservatives’ best arguments against raising taxes on millionaires rest on fallacies — and ignore extreme inequality’s social and political costs.
Poll: Majority Backs AOC’s 70 Percent Top Marginal Tax Rate Some pundits deemed Ocasio-Cortez’s plans for soaking the rich “radical.” Forty-five percent of GOP voters say it sounds about right.
The Rich Haven’t Become Too Immoral. They’ve Become Too Rich. Moral decline didn’t make capitalism more predatory. Policies that weakened unions and enriched capitalists did.
alexandria ocasio-cortez
1/4/2019
Ocasio-Cortez’s 70 Percent Top Tax Rate Is a Moderate, Evidence-Based Policy Economic research and opinion polling suggest there’s nothing “extreme” about taxing incomes over $10 million at pre-Reagan rates.
higher education
12/10/2018
A New Study Illustrates One Easy Way to Increase Diversity on College Campuses New research reinforces the systemic nature of the barriers low-income students encounter when they consider higher education.
Tribalism Isn’t Our Democracy’s Problem. The Conservative Movement Is. Partisan polarization has made it easier for lawmakers to disregard the popular will; but it is reactionary elites who demand such disregard.
There’s Plenty of Economic Anxiety in America. It’s Hurting Trump Politically. Yes, the economy is doing well overall, but those left out of the bounty are not very happy with Donald Trump or his party.
The Trump Tax Cuts Keep Getting Worse for the Deficit — and Better for the Rich Rich people are manipulating retirement plans to milk the Trump tax cuts for all they’re worth (and then a little extra).
Unions Are Not a Special Interest Group A new study confirms that labor unions raise wages for all workers — especially those of color — and do not significantly slow economic growth.
Jordan Peterson Does Not Support ‘Equality of Opportunity’ When conservatives decry “equality of outcomes,” they’re usually evading a debate about structural inequalities in the distribution of opportunity.
Affluent Democrats Aren’t an Obstacle to Economic Populism The class divide between affluent and working-class Democrats is less politically significant than the divide between both groups and the super-rich.
The Trump Tax Cuts Just Got Even More Skewed to the Rich The Senate bill gave 62 percent of its tax cuts to the top 1 percent of income earners. In the final tax bill, their share goes up to 83 percent.
Inequality Is Rising Across the Globe — and Skyrocketing in the U.S. A new report shows that inequality is a political choice — and American policy makers have chosen to accelerate its growth.
How the Trump Tax Cuts Would Reshape (and/or Break) Our Economy The GOP’s tax reforms would have major consequences for housing, higher education, and manufacturing — and just might trigger a recession.
The Trump Economy Is a Gilded Mediocrity Five reasons why the American economy is far weaker than mainstream commentary suggests.
Is It Worth It to Try to Get Rich People to Realize They’re Lucky? If it’s such an uphill battle, as the research suggests, is it worth maybe trying something else instead?
3 Insights About Inequality in American Health Care Despite being the richest and most powerful country in the world, America continues to do a terrible job taking care of its vulnerable citizens.
The Working Poor Got Richer in 2016 Low unemployment and minimum-wage increases sparked strong wage growth at the bottom of America’s income ladder in Obama’s final year.
Society Becomes Less Trusting When More People Don’t Have Health Insurance The social fabric of an entire neighborhood changes when some residents lose their coverage.
money money money
1/12/2017
A New Study Shows How Severe Inequality Is — and How Little We’re Doing About It The average income for the bottom 50 percent is the same as in 1980 — while the average income for the top one percent has more than tripled.
Is the Mindfulness Craze Turning Us Into Suckers? When people focus too much on psychological tricks, there’s a chance they can miss the bigger forces swirling around.
New Study Finds the American Dream Is Even More Dead Than You Thought New research shows there’s less social mobility in the United States than previously believed.
mind the gender gap
9/22/2016
Why Americans Ignore the Role of Luck in Everything In a talk about his new book on luck, the economist Robert Frank offered some ideas for increasing luck awareness.
The Global Super-Rich Got Less Super-Rich in 2015 For the first time in seven years, the world population of super-rich people declined last year.
62 Billionaires Own As Much Wealth As Half of Humanity And the planet’s richest one percent now own more than the bottom 99 percent, according to a new report by Oxfam.
College Newspaper Scores Poop Scoop of the Century College students demand that their school give them a better pee or give them death.
Why Conservatives Use Novels to Justify Inequality Criticizing socialistic dystopia is easier than defending the Republican agenda.
Dopamine Might Make People More Egalitarian An interesting new study suggests it has some promise at least.
One Percent Have Almost Half the World’s Wealth And the one percent are on track to possess more than half by 2016.
White People Think Black People Are Magical And this tendency is probably doing some damage.
The Subtle Ways Classroom Layout Affects Learning All those posters on the walls can get distracting.
Marriage Enthusiasts, Hesitants, and Delayers Most college students fall into one of the three categories, and there are some big gender and class divides.
Family Dinners Aren’t Realistic for Everyone They’re just a fantasy for a lot of busy or poor families.
How Obama Both Has, and Has Not, Reduced Inequality Narrowing the wealth gap is a tough policy fight — and only getting tougher.
Romney’s Radical Theory of Fairness The only unfairness is that which government creates.
Inequality and Bullshit Pethokoukis’s latest project is to deny — or quasi-deny, or muddy the waters, depending on the day — the fact of rising income inequality.
The Real Income Inequality Gap It’s between the rich and the crazy rich.
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