Tag: Inequality
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%...
Saudi women are fighting for their freedom – and their hard-won...
Alainna Liloia, University of Arizona
Saudi women will soon be allowed to obtain passports and travel without the permission of a male relative.
This new regulation,...
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...
Minorities face more obstacles to a lifesaving organ transplant
Camilla Nonterah, University of Richmond
Patients who experience organ failure need a transplant to improve their odds of survival and to achieve a better quality...
How dogs help keep multiracial neighborhoods socially segregated
Sarah Mayorga-Gallo, University of Massachusetts Boston
Cities in the United States are getting less segregated and, according to a recent national survey, most Americans value...
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...
