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Can ‘baby bonds’ help the U.S. close its staggering racial wealth gap?
Whites in the U.S. have much greater household and individual wealth than blacks and other minorities. In fact, the typical black household has about 10 cents for every dollar of wealth in a typical white household. Some economists and politicians…
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October 28, 2018 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode
On this edition for Sunday, Oct. 28, grief and prayers in Pittsburgh after this weekend's deadly rampage at a Jewish synagogue, and the catastrophic human cost of the ongoing war in Yemen. Also, poverty on Skid Row of Los Angeles…
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In LA, poverty on Skid Row defies U.S.’s humane reputation
Sanitary and living conditions for an estimated 2,000 homeless people along Los Angeles’ Skid Row are so severe that the United Nations recently compared them to Syrian refugee camps. How does extreme poverty persist in one of the country’s most…
Is increasing income inequality a fact or a myth?
A new academic paper making the rounds of the economics profession contradicts conventional wisdom: that incomes of the top 10 percent, 1 percent and especially the tippy-top .1 percent, have been pulling away from the rest of Americans.
The relationship between political sentiment and measured economic inequalities is so important to understand, even though at first glance it's counter-intuitive.
Research shows that social mobility and income equality in the U.S. has a lot to do with where people live.
The "elephant chart" explains the rise of populism in the developed world and so much more.
There are clear channels that people can use to put downward pressure on the pay of those at the top in both the corporate and noncorporate sector that don’t require going through Washington.
Opponents of the $15 minimum wage claim that if the minimum wage goes up, jobs will go down. But this is simply an intimidation tactic used by employers to keep wages down and keep profits high.
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