Tag: Inequality
Poor, minority students at dilapidated schools face added risks amid talk...
Hardy Murphy, IUPUI
Classrooms, gyms and cafeterias at schools across the U.S. have remained empty for months now. And despite some districts beginning to reopen,...
Why Indian American spelling bee success is more than just an...
Pawan Dhingra, Amherst College
Over the past 20 years, Indian Americans have come to dominate the Scripps National Spelling Bee even though they comprise only...
Rich and poor don’t recover equally from epidemics. Rebuilding fairly will...
Ilan Noy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Since the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, disaster recovery plans are almost always framed with...
Rich folks aren’t that stingy after all
Benjamin A. Priday, Texas A&M University
At least half of American families have been giving money to charity every year – but that fraction...
How the rich reacted to the bubonic plague has eerie similarities...
Kathryn McKinley, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The coronavirus can infect anyone, but recent reporting has shown your socioeconomic status can play a big role,...
Income inequality is getting worse in US urban areas
Brian Thiede, Pennsylvania State University; David L. Brown, Cornell University; Jaclyn Butler, Pennsylvania State University, and Leif Jensen, Pennsylvania State University
Income inequality has increased...
Transgender Americans are more likely to be unemployed and poor
Christopher Carpenter, Vanderbilt University and Gilbert Gonzales, Vanderbilt University
The United States Supreme Court will issue a ruling this year in a landmark case that...
How the T-Mobile-Sprint merger will increase inequality
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
A federal judge gave his blessing to the US$26.5 billion merger between T-Mobile and Sprint on Feb. 11,...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
