Tag: Inequality
What’s a capital gain and how is it taxed?
Stephanie Leiser, University of Michigan
President Joe Biden plans to propose doubling the tax wealthy people pay on their...
How lifting children out of poverty today will help them tomorrow
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Northwestern University; Hilary Hoynes, University of California, Berkeley, and Melissa S. Kearney, University of Maryland
As...
What is food insecurity?
Caitlin Caspi, University of Connecticut
Among the many striking images from the pandemic is an aerial photo showing cars in seemingly endless rows lined up...
Feeling relatively poor increases support for women in the workplace –...
Katrina Kosec, Johns Hopkins University and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, University of California, Berkeley
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big...
The less equal we become, the less we trust science, and...
Tony Ward, University of Melbourne
In mid November, South Dakota emergency room nurse Jodi Doering tweeted her experience of caring for dying patients.
Many, she said,...
Computer science jobs pay well and are growing fast. Why are...
Tamara Pearson, Spelman College
When it comes to the digital divide, often the focus is on how lack of internet service and basic technology will...
We’ll see more fire seasons like 2020 – here’s a strategy...
Jennifer Balch, University of Colorado Boulder
As of late fall, wildfires are still smoldering under snowfall in Colorado. I am hoping that the cold and...
Schools often fail to identify gifted and talented students – especially...
Marcia Gentry, Purdue University
About a decade ago, I was working with a large, urban school district on creating a gifted and talented program that...
EXPLORING NATURE
Wildfires can contaminate drinking water systems with harmful chemicals − here’s...
Andrew J. Whelton, Purdue University
The wildfires in the Los Angeles area have destroyed more than 10,000 structures, many...
