Tag: Economic inequality
A window into the hearts and minds of billionaire donors
Hans Peter Schmitz, University of San Diego
As the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic toll increases, many billionaires and their foundations are making very public efforts to...
Brands backing Black Lives Matter: it might be a marketing ploy,...
Bree Hurst, Queensland University of Technology
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant...
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,...
The US economy likely just entered its longest ever expansion –...
Steven Pressman, Colorado State University
The U.S. economy likely surpassed an important milestone last month: Americans are now experiencing the longest economic expansion in the...
Social Security helped slash elderly poverty to 9.2 percent in the...
David W. Rasmussen, Florida State University
In 1959, more than a third of all elderly Americans lived in poverty. Slashing that number to under 10...
Small business owners are getting a new incentive to sell to...
Joseph Blasi, Rutgers University and Douglas L. Kruse, Rutgers University
The federal government just made it a lot easier to form an employee-owned business.
In...
Women earn less after they have kids, despite strong credentials
Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Women without kids have earned more than employed mothers for decades or longer. But differences between these two kinds...
How rich are the rich? If only you knew
Gil B. Manzon Jr., Boston College
“If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets.”
Actor and comedian...
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...
