Tag: Inequality
Employment helps white men’s health more than women and blacks
Shervin Assari, University of Michigan
Employment can be a big boost to health, conferring up to 10 extra years of life, but not if you...
Can people ‘like me’ go to college? Inequality and dreams of...
Daphna Oyserman, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Neil Lewis Jr., University of Michigan
The cost of college...
Trump budget would abandon public education for private choice
Derek Black, University of South Carolina
The Trump administration has announced its plan to transform education funding as we know it. The new...
‘Moonlight’ schooled Hollywood on race. Can it take on school discipline,...
Derek Black, University of South Carolina
This year’s Academy Award winner for best picture tackles a difficult topic in the education world today:...
What France and the UK can teach Trump about reviving America’s...
Steven Pressman, Colorado State University
America’s middle class is in deep trouble.
Signs of its decline are everywhere, from stagnant incomes and falling...
Are Soaring Levels of Income Inequality Making us a More Polarized...
Christos Makridis, Stanford University
Political polarization today is greater than it’s been in recent history – at least since the 1970s. To see that, one...
Britain’s love affair with cheap food could be coming to an...
By Tim Lang, City University London and Victoria Schoen, City University London
Political wrangling over food prices has a long history, and a difficult future....
It’s not fair! How the human equality condition can hold some...
By John McGowan, Canterbury Christ Church University
When you have more than one child, the importance of fairness seems to trump all other considerations, including...
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...
