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Inequality
inequality
Sept. 27, 2019
Income Inequality Is Reaching a Tipping Point The Census Bureau’s latest report reinforces the need for urgent solutions.
By Sarah Jones
Democracy Dies When Labor Unions Do Strengthening unions should be at the heart of any agenda for reviving American democracy because labor’s weakness is at the heart of its decline.
By Eric Levitz
the economy
Sept. 5, 2019
The Fastest Growing Jobs in America Don’t Require a College Degree Expanding access to higher education can’t revive the middle class. Only increasing the bargaining power of service-sector workers can.
By Eric Levitz
The Fed Just Released a Damning Indictment of Capitalism The true “extremists” in American politics are those who insist that our economic system is working just fine.
By Eric Levitz
In Appeal to Moderates, Bernie Calls for Worker-Ownership of Means of Production Sanders’s new plan for increasing labor’s share of profits is both more socialist – and more popular – than some of his more conventional policies.
By Eric Levitz
Robert Smith’s Morehouse Gift Is More Generous Than His Vision The billionaire’s donation of $40 million to pay off the debt of Morehouse grads was a noble act of charity. But charity is not justice.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
Report: IRS More Likely to Audit Those Living in Poorer Counties Like many facets of American life, the poor bear an outsized number of Internal Revenue Service audits, according to a new study.
By Matt Stieb
college admissions scandal
Mar. 12, 2019
Of Course the College Admissions Scandal Has an NCAA Angle In a way, it’s the strangest element of this thoroughly bizarre case.
By Jesse Singal
college admissions scandal
Mar. 12, 2019
All College Admissions Are a Pay-to-Play Scandal Revelations that Hollywood stars and business leaders bribed elite schools into accepting their kids is a reminder that meritocracy is a myth.
By Eric Levitz
the city politic
Mar. 1, 2019
Even Our Dog Parks Show America Is an Unequal Playing Field All dogs may go to heaven, but lower-income canine lovers have found that not every dog gets to enjoy a ritzy outdoor space.
By Sarah Jones
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.
By Alex Morris
howard schultz
Jan. 29, 2019
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.
By Eric Levitz
vision 2020
Jan. 24, 2019
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.
By Eric Levitz
alexandria ocasio-cortez
Jan. 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.
By Eric Levitz
conservatism
Jan. 18, 2019
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.
By Eric Levitz
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.
By Eric Levitz
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.
By Eric Levitz
alexandria ocasio-cortez
Jan. 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.
By Eric Levitz
higher education
Dec. 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.
By Sarah Jones
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.
By Eric Levitz
the economy
Oct. 11, 2018
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.
By Ed Kilgore
trump tax cuts
Aug. 15, 2018
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).
By Eric Levitz
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.
By Eric Levitz
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.
By Eric Levitz
democratic party
Apr. 20, 2018
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.
By Eric Levitz
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.
By Eric Levitz
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.
By Eric Levitz
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.
By Eric Levitz
The Trump Economy Is a Gilded Mediocrity Five reasons why the American economy is far weaker than mainstream commentary suggests.
By Eric Levitz
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?
By Jesse Singal
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.
By Jesse Singal
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.
By Eric Levitz
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.
By Cari Romm
money money money
Jan. 12, 2017
By Drake Baer
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.
By Eric Levitz
mindfulness
Nov. 28, 2016
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.
By Jesse Singal
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.
By Eric Levitz
mind the gender gap
Sept. 22, 2016
By Lisa Ryan
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.
By Jesse Singal
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.
By Eric Levitz
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.
By Eric Levitz
important news
Nov. 2, 2015
College Newspaper Scores Poop Scoop of the Century College students demand that their school give them a better pee or give them death.
By Jaime Fuller
inequality
Sept. 11, 2015
By Thomas MacMillan
the national interest
May 8, 2015
Why Conservatives Use Novels to Justify Inequality Criticizing socialistic dystopia is easier than defending the Republican agenda.
By Jonathan Chait
Dopamine Might Make People More Egalitarian An interesting new study suggests it has some promise at least.
By Jesse Singal
There Are Fewer Lead Roles for Women in Hollywood: Study Despite the popularity of films like Gone Girl , The Hunger Games , and Divergent .
By Sean Fitz-Gerald
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