Inequality

Details: Written by: Fiona McHardy

Why Gossip Was A Powerful Tool For The Powerless In Ancient Greece

At the heart of the greatest works of Ancient Greek literature are mighty acts of revenge.

Details: Written by: Nancy Lee

Why Celebrity, Award-winning Chefs Are Usually White Men Another year, another list of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants. And another round of Michelin stars, Good Food Guide hats, and Gourmet Traveller Top 100 Restaurants in Australia.

Details: Written by: Tonja Jacobi & Ross Berlin

Why Won’t The US Supreme Court Do Anything About Racism? The Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke fired 16 shots, killing the African-American teenager Laquan McDonald; 14 of those shots were apparently fired while McDonald lay on the ground.

Details: Written by: Keith Frankish

Just like the rest of us, the rich and powerful have had to accept that youth is fleeting, that strength and health soon fail, and that all possessions must be relinquished within a few decades.

Details: Written by: U. Melbourne

If You Want To Know Why People Become Homeless Just Ask Them
There is a significant perception gap between what the general public think about why people become homeless, and what people who have experienced homelessness say

Details: Written by: Sue Richardson

We have the wealth to ensure a sustainable future but too many people are being left behind
The purpose of our social, economic and political systems is to enable all Australians to lead good lives. Australia is doing well on some fronts. It ranks third out of 188 countries on the UN Human Development Index, which takes into account life expectancy, education and national income per capita. We also rank 19th on national income per capita.

Details: Written by: Sapna Parikh

What Happens To The Middle Class As Inequality Rises? If the United States doesn’t address rising inequality, the middle class could start feeling the effects in the form of fewer government services, one expert says.

Details: Written by: Brown University

6 Ways The Places Where You Grow Up Shape Your Life
Researchers have created an interactive, map-based tool—the Opportunity Atlas—that can trace the root of people’s outcomes, such as poverty or incarceration, to the neighborhoods in which they grew up.

Details: Written by: Duke University

Reports Overlooked Racial Wealth Gap As Factor Behind 1960s Riots Racial wealth inequality was an important factor contributing to the riots in many American cities in the 1960s, but a half-century later, the issue has gotten short shrift, researchers report.

Details: Written by: James Devitt

Do Parental Jobs Predict How Far You Get In Life American workers’ occupational status reflects that of their parents more than previously known, a new study shows.

The findings reaffirm more starkly that the lack of social mobility in the United States is in large part due to the occupation of our parents.

Details: Written by: Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine

Tax Overhaul and the Immorality of Inequality
Societies tend to become more unequal over time, unless there is concerted pushback. A society that fails to invest in its children, to protect its land and water, or to build a future is courting collapse. The process feeds on itself, growing like a cancer...

Details: Written by: Tom Snee-University Of Iowa

Free School Breakfast Gives Grades A Boost
Children from low-income families who attend a school that offers free breakfasts do better academically in math, science, and reading, report researchers.

Details: Written by: Lowell B. Denny, III, People's World

Solving Homelessness: A Public Option For Land Ownership? A number of recent articles in the corporate press around the country highlight the ongoing dilemma the capitalist class faces in dealing with the persistent and rising homelessness problem.

Details: Written by: David Korten, YES! Magazine

Why a Just and Sustainable Economy Looks Like a Doughnut This is the real-world economy for a living Earth that we must learn to structure and manage to provide a safe space for humanity.

Details: Written by: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams

Is The American Dream On Life Support? 'Declines in absolute mobility have been a systematic, widespread phenomenon throughout the United States since 1940,' the authors of the new study write.

Details: Written by: Paul Buchheit, Common Dreams

New Evidence that Poor Americans Pay the Highest Taxes and Get Little of the Safety Net The American tax system, in which those with the least pay the most.

Details: Written by: Chuck Collins, YES! Magazine

Why Wealth Alone Won’t Save Billionaire Doomsday Preppers The wealthy will not be able to build a wall high enough or a silo deep enough. The only solution is to bring your wealth home and invest in community resilience to ensure the survival of all.

Details: Written by: Sheena Rice, University of Missouri

When Food Stamp Benefits Go Up, These ER Visits Go Down In 2014, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a federal program to address food insecurity in the United States, provided $70 billion in nutrition support to 46.5 million families and children living in 22.7 million American households.

Details: Written by: Jill Rosen, Johns Hopkins University

US Teens In Poverty Go Hungry So Siblings Can Eat A survey of about 1,500 extremely disadvantaged families in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio shows teenagers go without food twice as often as their younger brothers and sisters.

Details: Written by: Bert Gambini, University at Buffalo

In America, Less Education Often Means More Chronic Pain Older Americans with less money and education are much more like to suffer from chronic pain than wealthier adults with more education.

Details: Written by: Julie Sloane, University of Pennsylvania

How It Feels When People See You As Less Human In a recent study, American participants placed Muslims and Mexican immigrants significantly closer to the ape-like ancestor than Americans as a whole.