Unlike income inequality, wealth inequality along racial lines in the US has received relatively little attention. New evidence on the changing landscape of relative wealth among whites, blacks, and Hispanics between 1983 and 2016.
Chicago legend and icon, Timuel Black, turned 100 on December 7, 2018. He has been instrumental in making the city of Chicago and our world a better place, and we could not be more grateful.
How a small rural county’s petty political feuds could shape the next Congress.
The three wealthiest families in the U.S.—the Waltons (Walmart), the Kochs, and the Mars—have seen their wealth increase nearly 6,000% just in the past generation. Median household wealth over the same period went down by 3%.
The House of Representatives is not representative
Tuesday’s results were perfectly coherent, a fight over two concepts central to our nation’s origins, its progress, and its future: the promises of and restrictions on political representation and political enfranchisement.
Meanwhile, food insecurity among new immigrant families has nearly doubled in the last decade.
We are already paying a high price for inequality, but it is just a down payment on what we will have to pay if we do not do something—and quickly. It is not just our economy that is at stake; we are risking our democracy.
Female prison inmates are being disciplined at much higher rates than men for lower-level offenses in many states.
Italian professor’s presentation deemed ‘unacceptable’ by Geneva research centre
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