Tag: Inequality
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,...
CEOs make more in first week of January than average salary...
Tobore Okah-Avae, University of Bristol
The typical FTSE 100 CEO will have earned as much as the average UK worker earns in a year by...
Myths around mental illness cause high rates of unemployment
Bandy X. Lee, Yale University
Even though mental illness affects one in five adults – and depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide –...
Immigrants and some people of color are moving to the suburbs...
Grigoris Argeros, Eastern Michigan University
In the traditional American image of suburbia, the majority of residents are predominately native-born white Americans, living in large single-family...
A quarter of US parents are unmarried – and that changes...
Orestes 'Pat' Hastings, Colorado State University and Daniel Schneider, University of California, Berkeley
Family structure in America is sharply divided by class and race.
While 84%...
EXPLORING NATURE
As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste
Tevis Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, American University School of International Service
The U.S. government has caused massive food waste during President...
