The system of capitalism is predatory and it creates an inequality, racial inequality, environmental inequality, social inequality, sexual inequality.
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They struggle with income inequality, housing inequality, and educational inequality.
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Economic inequality breeds political inequality, which results in more economic inequality.
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Inequality has been so much a part of the conversation — in terms of economic inequality, health care inequality, and educational inequality.
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So much of the show is built around class inequality, power inequality, wealth inequality.
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This is now a new axis of social inequality that's not only economic inequality — which is still critically important — but also knowledge inequality and the inequality of decision rights, the inequality of our capacity to be autonomous and self-determining, the inequality of human agency.
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John Seabrook: There's a lot of gender inequality for sure, probably more gender inequality than race inequality.
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Increasing taxes reduces inequality and lower inequality is itself associated with lower inheritance of the inequality that remains.
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Economic inequality begets political inequality which begets more economic inequality and so on and so forth down the chain.
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"We're still faced with widespread poverty, inequality, discrimination, inequality of economic opportunity, inequality in our justice system," Cook said.
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Since 85033, the two inequality measures have moved in opposite directions, with income inequality rising and consumption inequality falling.
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"Income inequality is a moral issue, but this is a different type of inequality — it's inequality of opportunity," Mr. Kessler said.
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Inequality is inevitable; the vast inequality of America today isn't.
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But we still have tremendous income inequality and wealth inequality.
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The biggest impact of gender inequality is on income inequality.
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Mr. Sanders emphasized that wealth inequality translates to political inequality.
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Economic inequality, the report argues, is built on gender inequality.
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It is the political inequality that economic inequality can spawn.
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Or more precisely, wealth inequality is in part because of gender inequality, according to Oxfam International's latest report on global inequality, released Sunday.
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Corruption is political inequality, and extremes of wealth are economic inequality.
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It's not just income inequality that agitates people, it's democracy inequality.
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As bad as income inequality is, wealth inequality is even worse.
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Between the lines: There's inequality within districts and inequality between districts.
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The inequality was so ingrained that nobody saw it as inequality.
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Comparing actual income inequality to predicted income inequality results in a reduction from 0.44 to 0.19 as measured by the Gini coefficient of inequality.
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"Income inequality is pretty stark, but asset inequality is unbelievable," Zewde said.
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Gender inequality in lecture halls has faded; household income inequality has widened.
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After industrialisation, inequality across countries (or location-based inequality) became more important.
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Inequality in remaining lifetime spending is dramatically lower than inequality in wealth.
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Unfortunately, today's inequality "experts" focus on inequality measures that exaggerate the problem.
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Income inequality is just as much of a problem as wealth inequality.
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The inequality problem Yellen also expressed concern about America's rising inequality gap.
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But the chart on the right peers a little closer and finds that energy footprint inequality rises in superlinear fashion relative to income inequality — which is to say, as income inequality rises, energy footprint inequality rises even faster.
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What is happening is that ongoing racial inequality has led to credit inequality.
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Queen bees aren't a reason for inequality but rather a result of inequality.
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Unsurprisingly, just as there is income inequality, there is inequality in carbon emissions.
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There's all kinds of things around gender inequality and racial inequality going on.
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The three stories call attention to the ways educational inequality and racial inequality intersect.
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But economic inequality is not the only form of inequality that we must face.
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"Inequality of attention shades into inequality of respect," Mr. Garton Ash wrote last year.
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It's clear from census data that regional inequality contributes very little to total inequality.
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" LEILANI FARHA, UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE RIGHT TO HOUSING "Grenfell is very much about inequality – not just inequality in housing, but inequality of political power and voice.
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First, spending inequality—what we should really care about—is far smaller than wealth inequality.
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Address inequality; expand the safety net Addressing inequality is something every Democratic candidate would support.
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Income inequality: Proposes investing $100 billion in black homeowners to close the racial inequality gap.
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For starters, he talked of "bad inequality" but also "good inequality", an unfashionable idea today.
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" On inequality: "We're going to have to fight harder to reduce inequality among all people.
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There is greater and greater inequality, economic inequality, income and otherwise, in the United States.
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It was the biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising four decades ago.
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The same problems afflict the discussion about the way economic inequality maps onto health inequality.
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I obviously knew women experience inequality and discrimination, and queer people experience inequality and discrimination.
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This increased inequality among firms translates through to wages and is generating and contributing to some of the increase in inequality that we're seeing which is still mostly inequality in the labor market is at the biggest root cause of our increase in inequality.
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"The inequality on panels is often also a mirror of gender-inequality within institutions," said Henkel.
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Consider what that means: the first major global inequality — an information inequality — to be completely erased.
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And like it or not, horizontal inequality, racial inequality above all, will define the general election.
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The greatest threat facing our society is not income inequality or climate change, but generational inequality.
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We can't just talk about economic inequality, we have to take on all forms of inequality.
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They're products of neglect, harmful policies, and inequality — inequality that Trump helped perpetuate as a landlord, and inequality that has also served as an opportunity for Trump in this election cycle.
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BRIAN SULLIVAN: And there's two types of inequality: there's income inequality – people actually paid to do a job – and then there's wealth inequality which is the value of the assets, obviously.
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We are now in a vicious cycle: Greater economic inequality is leading, in our money-driven political system, to more political inequality, with weaker rules and deregulation causing still more economic inequality.
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Since then, upper-tail inequality has continued to grow while lower-tail inequality has remained basically unchanged.
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Bourdieu didn't argue that cultural inequality creates economic inequality, but that it widens and it legitimizes it.
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Whatever is leading to the massive inequality in life expectancy is more complex than mere income inequality.
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How automation could lead to inequality One potential downside to the robot revolution: Automation could increase income inequality.
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Unions also tend to reduce inequality; states, where unions are stronger, have reliably lower levels of economic inequality.
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The other ideas to combat inequality And that leaves us with the other ideas offered to combat inequality.
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Right now, the inequality has contributed to a regime in Washington that is only making the inequality worse.
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Look at what we're talking about: inequality, this new gilded age, this unprecedented inequality in terms of wealth.
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"Past inequality begets future inequality," she tells CNBC Make It, citing the company's Women in the Workforce report.
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But there is unfair inequality where we have inequality of opportunity, lack of shared prosperity, lack of inclusion.
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The rich are more generous in times of lesser inequality and less generous when inequality grows more extreme.
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The voices heard in American politics are skewed substantially in the direction of the affluent and well-educated, creating a vicious circle in which economic inequality begets political inequality which, in turn, furthers economic inequality.
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It's not just economic inequality but spatial inequality at two scales: One is spatial inequality within cities, but the other one is a winner-take-all dynamic between the winning cities and the losing cities.
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Fed officials have occasionally talked about those issues — I talked about inequality, and Janet Yellen has talked about inequality.
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But then again, economic inequality spills over into social inequality, which spins into a political motivation for many voters.
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The result is to amplify inequality among children, with predictable consequences on later inequality when these children grow up.
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The lopsided voting system creates serious political inequality between rural and urban voters, which itself creates inequality between generations.
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Fighting inequality in our criminal justice system, fighting inequality in our health care and our housing and our education.
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That's led to some frustration that he seems to think economic inequality is more important, more foundational, than racial inequality.
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Wealth inequality is harder to measure than income inequality for a simple reason: A lot of people have negative wealth.
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Horizontal inequality is the term of art for inequality measured, not between individuals, but between racially or culturally defined groups.
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The reduction of inequality among nations has led to the increase of inequality within rich nations, like the United States.
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" He added that "economic inequality and the severity of economic inequality are playing out in ways that actually cost lives.
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It's now a mainstream view that education is a solution to economic inequality, racial inequality, gender inequality, bigotry in general, job growth, economic growth, and winning elections: a "silver bullet" as a West Wing monologue once put it.
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"We have an issue with wage inequality, income inequality and wealth inequality where most of the growth is going to the top," said Valerie Wilson, director of the Economic Policy Institute's program on race, ethnicity and the economy.
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All societies that have successfully tamed inequality have done so mostly by curbing the concentration of pretax income — the inequality generated by the markets — for the simple reason that extreme market inequality undermines the very possibility of redistribution.
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Where you live and what kind of company and industry you work in is the kind of inequality that we've had in the last 10 or 15 years, it's called within-group inequality, as to between-group inequality.
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" The Ford Foundation is so convinced that inequality is bad that it has decided "to work on inequality and nothing else.
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We face a gulf between the rich and everyone else — and it's not just inequality of wealth, it's inequality of opportunity.
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All of these topics put together merit less attention from the expert on income inequality than the history of income inequality.
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Yellen, who has not been shy in speaking on income inequality, has also noted that rising inequality could curb U.S. economic growth.
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To the extent the price of college has become an aspect of inequality, big-college football has become an enforcer of inequality.
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"To address inequality, including economic inequality, you need to address land distribution," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a telephone interview.
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But lest we forget, the roots of intolerance are tied to inequality, and it was inequality and intolerance that decided this election.
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America in the Gilded Age was a starkly unequal place, not just in terms of inequality between people but inequality between regions.
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Although income inequality is high in comparison to advanced economies, its level of inequality is still below the levels of emerging economies.
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This correlation between inequality and mobility has been noted as the "Great Gatsby Curve", and it shows another pernicious effect of inequality.
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Before then, inequality was about growing inequality of wages, but over the past 210 years or so it is increasingly about capital.
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Even the Obama administration, while doing much more to fight inequality than many realize, balked at making inequality reduction an explicit goal.
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In " Global Inequality ," Milanovic traced the fluctuations of inequality back to the Middle Ages in Holland, Spain, and Italy, and showed that inequality has been going up and down in long and unpredictable waves ever since, responding to various contending forces.
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Wealthy women have always been able to get abortions and birth control, but the vast majority of this country cannot pay to solve the structural problems imposed by a lack of support, by economic inequality, by racial inequality, by gender inequality.
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The team analyzed gender inequality levels and sex-specific child mortality rates in 195 countries using UNICEF's database of child mortality worldwide and the UN's Gender Inequality Index, which measures gender inequality based on reproductive health, female empowerment and economic status.
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This increased inequality among firms translates through to wages and is generating and contributing to some of the increase in inequality we're seeing.
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And with pay inequality amounting to $1.2 trillion a year, he knew the cost of ignoring this inequality simply was much too high.
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Sanders denounced inequality with more ferocity than any other presidential candidate, and inequality really has skyrocketed in America over the past few decades.
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I'm quite interested in the politics of now, especially with increasing inequality in Britain and America, inequality of wealth and polarizing political opinions.
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"No country (apart from Russia) for which estimates of wealth inequality are available has similarly high recorded levels of wealth inequality," Zucman writes.
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But now that gender inequality is finally at the top of everyone's minds, it feels like diversity inequality has taken a back seat.
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A policy that creates inequality between white and Native American people, for example, also yields inequality between white men and Native American women.
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The "solutions" that ended Gilded Age inequality, in other words, became a crucial seedbed for our own era's historically distinct expressions of inequality.
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The idea seems to be that for white Americans—non-racist white people—being reminded of racial inequality is worse than racial inequality.
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Clinton ended by noting other forms of inequality, besides economic inequality, which were not dealt with in tonight's debate: sexism, racism, LGBT discrimination.
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"Even if official data understate the degree of inequality, the trend of lessening inequality is believable," says Li Shi of Beijing Normal University.
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The study, which measures income inequality by state, metro area and county, shows that inequality has risen in every state since the 1970s.
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Libraries not only lessen local inequality, as Mr. Klinenberg argues, but also alleviate national inequality through literary and technological connections beyond isolated communities.
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The AHCA would reverse one of the greatest actions against inequality ever taken by the federal government, and then increase inequality yet further.
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"We have been trying to reduce the inequality and the appearance of inequality in our justice system," Mr. Vance said in an interview.
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She wants to help address inequality, and is acutely aware of the irony that her superb education is the very embodiment of inequality.
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She understands that pay inequality and racial inequality cannot be separate issues when it comes to fighting for equal pay for all women.
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In her 2018 book "This Is What Inequality Looks Like," local sociologist Teo You Yenn examined structures of inequality that are less obvious.
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World Bank researchers have warned that high levels of inequality are stifling growth in South Africa, which has the globe's worst measured inequality.
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It would help to close a yawning wealth gap at a time when wealth inequality is roughly 6900 times wider than income inequality.
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Its signature piece of legislation — the Affordable Care Act — was the biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising four decades ago.
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Ocasio-Cortez says the inequality of the drug enforcement movement can't be allowed to continue as inequality in the nation's burgeoning cannabis industry.
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"The issue of income inequality in the U.S. isn't really a revelation, but our analysis shows that when you factor in inflation inequality, income inequality has grown even more rapidly than we originally thought," Collyer said Tuesday on a call with reporters.
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Richard Florida has documented the connection between innovation and inequality across global cities, where "winner-take-all urbanism" has deepened inequality, segregation and poverty.
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And this is why I oppose police brutality — any type of inequality — and abortion is just one of those things that contribute to inequality.
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Yes, we have income inequality, we have other forms of inequality that we need to stand up against and absolutely diminish from our society.
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That book, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, argued that poorly rendered algorithms reinforce discrimination and widen inequality.
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"To get more women elected we have to show the effects of such inequality and how inequality affects men and women differently," he said.
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The Gini coefficient measures inequality by assigning a decimal number that can range from 0, which represents perfect equality, to one, meaning perfect inequality.
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Dispelling misconceptions about what's driving income inequality in the U.S. Income inequality inspires fierce debate around the world, and no shortage of proposed solutions.
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In a sprawling acceptance speech, he touched on social inequality, the cruelty of the food industry toward animals, systemic inequality, and even cancel culture.
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GREEN The first thing to say is that the authors of both shows are exposing serious problems of gender inequality, not endorsing that inequality.
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Even as individual income inequality has soared to levels not seen since the 1920s, state-level inequality — comparing, say, Alabama with Iowa — has plummeted relative to the early 20th century and remains low, according to I.R.S. records compiled by economists for the World Inequality Database.
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"All the things I care about changing in society; economic inequality, gender inequality, racism and poverty, seem to be epitomised by the monarchy," she said.
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And yet the idea that inequality alone is responsible for all this, and that reducing inequality will solve it, does not in the end convince.
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While economic inequality is growing, progress has been made against the United Nations' development goals, especially in terms of fighting disease, hunger and education inequality.
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In short, we hear plenty of talk about income inequality these days, but issues surrounding the inequality of work itself may be no less important.
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But in searching for those policies, we should not assume that wealth inequality is, on its own, a useful guide to true underlying consumption inequality.
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More importantly, even granting that "economic inequality per se" is not necessarily bad, technology's acceleration of economic inequality will exacerbate our existing, deeply unfair, inequities.
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More robots means more inequality Almost everyone who has thought seriously about this has said that more automation is likely to lead to more inequality.
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"There is growing inequality around the world, but there is also inequality among the ultrawealthy," said Maya Imberg, director of custom research at Wealth-X.
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Instead, such moves help wealthy people manage their discomfort with inequality, which in turn makes that inequality impossible to talk honestly about — or to change.
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"physical" inequality), and the sense of inequality experienced by needing to board the plane from the front and having walk through the first class section (i.e.
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Most of the rise in income inequality in rich countries, the authors point out, can be attributed to growing inequality between firms, rather than within them.
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In contrast, countries with low pre-tax inequality, such as South Korea, manage to achieve low post-tax inequality without doing much by way of redistribution.
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Our analysis, published in the report, "How privatization is increasing inequality," shows that privatization is helping fuel America's historic inequality, the defining issue of our time.
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According to Dalio, inequality should be treated as a "national emergency," and this book explores the nuances of inequality as it relates to the middle class.
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One criticism that I and other people have of Murray is that he often looks at indicators that reflect inequality and uses them to justify inequality.
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But technology is also a great reducer of extreme global poverty — or, put another way, tech will increase inequality within societies, and reduce inequality between societies.
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One chart from the 2018 World Inequality Report highlights the unique nature of income inequality in the US compared to other developed regions — namely, Western Europe.
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The General Social Survey asks a question about the causes of racial inequality and allows respondents to select whether they think various factors contribute to inequality.
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The first roughly measures whether respondents take a structural view of racial inequality and the second whether they take a more individualistic view of racial inequality.
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Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist Once a year my academic base, CUNY's Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, holds a workshop featuring cutting-edge research on inequality.
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Our nation has always experienced vast "income inequality," but if our political system ruptures this time it will not be because income inequality is something new.
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In one of the most disturbing developments emerging from recent research, the inequality of income and wealth is increasingly associated with the inequality of life expectancy.
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By the numbers: The Gini Index measures income inequality on a scale from 0 to 1, with 0 representing maximum equality and 1 representing maximum inequality.
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The IMF reckons that the rise in profits together with high wealth inequality explains about half the rise in income inequality in Germany between 2000 and 2015.
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We have a discussion both about inequality, inequality in opportunities and what kind of life should you be able to live in a free and open society?
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Theoretically, Sanders, with his relentless message railing against economic inequality, should be resonating in a state that has experienced rising levels of inequality in the past decade.
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Understanding that educational inequality perpetuates income inequality, we should follow carefully the assessments of state and local efforts to provide greater access to early childhood education opportunities.
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We should reject rhetoric that federal policies to address inequality will only slow economic growth — reducing inequality and pursuit of economic growth are not zero-sum choices.
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Nowadays the spirit of general education is hobbled by inequality, whether we speak of the increasing economic inequality of our country or the inequities of most universities.
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The IMF reckons that the rise in profits, together with high wealth inequality, explains about half the rise in income inequality in Germany between 2000 and 2015.
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Utilizing a commonly used measure of income inequality called the Gini coefficient, we find evidence of a negative correlation between licensing growth and county-level income inequality.
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Yet there is one threat of inequality that is widely feared, and that has been debated for thousands of years, which is that inequality can undermine governance.
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Jonathon Kozol, who chronicled inequality in America's schools, never wrote about the school system in Alabama, but his phrase "savage inequality" rings true when applied to it.
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The big picture: Wealth inequality surged in many heartland states last year, thanks to trade and agricultural policies, though coastal states still had the most inequality overall.
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The structure of this paper mostly consists of Chetty and his co-authors systematically disproving the obvious pathways by which economic inequality would lead to health inequality.
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But most people who care about inequality care about the poor, and when they see the inequality gap growing, they're worried that the poor are being left behind.
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For more serious stuff, take a look at two NPR graphics on inequality in the United States as well as a Brookings analysis of inequality in major cities.
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More important, they aver that inequality causes stress without admitting the possibility that some other factor is contributing to both, or indeed that social breakdown contributes to inequality.
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KG: It is very true that inequality has grown quite significantly, actually with the exception of China where since 2008 more attention is being paid to increasing inequality.
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The moderation of the pace of increase in inequality in no way takes away from the urgency of combating inequality, which remains very high by almost any standard.
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He muses, for instance, that at the dawn of industrialisation, inequality within countries (or class-based inequality) was responsible for the largest gaps between rich people and poor.
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On the one hand, governments tend to respond to rising inequality by increasing redistribution and investing in education; on the other, inequality leads to political upheaval and war.
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Instead, he suggests something more sinister: Today's leading Democrats actually don't want to reduce inequality because they believe that inequality is the normal and righteous order of things.
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So I always had left politics, and I was particularly interested as a student in various kinds of inequality — gender inequality, racial inequity, and how they shaped literature.
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" Economic theory, he wrote, holds that "inequality should be at least partially self-correcting in a democracy" as "increased inequality leads the median voter to demand more redistribution.
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As the first chart shows, white Democrats have become much less likely to endorse individualistic explanations of racial inequality and more supportive of structural explanations of racial inequality.
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This irony, in which those on the fortunate end of historic wealth inequality attempt to chronicle a populist movement produced by that inequality, often results in dubious journalism.
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Data points in the lower-left area of the plot are low-inequality, high-mobility countries, while those in the upper-right are high-inequality, low-mobility countries.
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But let me cite his famous speech on inequality, at Osawatomie, Kansas, where Theodore Roosevelt, before his Bull Moose candidacy, had once delivered a rousing tirade on inequality.
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She talked a lot about the impact of race on inequality, and the impact of a self-interested class of highly influential millionaires and billionaires on fueling inequality.
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Their emergence owed much to Latin America's extreme inequality of income and wealth, just as populism in the rich democracies has been stimulated by a rise in income inequality.
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Such exclusion, whereby inequality of outcomes feeds through to inequality of opportunities, hurts productivity because it deprives the economy of the skills and talents of those who are excluded.
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But, at least in the U.S, it's also a sign of growing economic inequality, which underpins income inequality among workers, one reason for the election of President Donald Trump.
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He hasn't hesitated to talk about racial inequality as well as gender inequality and LGBTQ issues, but these statements come alongside comments about American civic identity and shared values.
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Where Mr Piketty sees the inequality-compressing historical events of the early 20th century as an accident, Mr Milanovic believes them to be the direct result of soaring inequality.
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But the expression on Martha's face reminds us that the Soviet Union isn't just nominal equality as a facade for inequality, but inequality as a facade for widespread dissatisfaction.
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During the nineties, upper-tail wage inequality (the gap between the middle class and the rich) exceeded lower-tail inequality (the gap between the poor and the middle class).
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The change wasn't big enough to reverse recent increases in inequality, of course, but it was still a major shift that's gotten surprisingly little notice in the inequality debate.
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These are ideas aimed in part at addressing wealth inequality, a problem more vexing in many ways than the inequality in conventional income that often dominates progressive policy debates.
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Inequality is somehow the fault of the tech industry, rather than City / Wall Street parasitism, regulatory capture and, again, the politicians who actually write the laws which enact inequality.
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Oxfam's new Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index (CRI), released Monday, ranks the U.S. 23rd out of 152 countries for its commitment to stemming and re-balancing national inequality levels.
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Sure, it means that if you take two people who make the same income, but one lives in a very high-inequality place and one lives in a low-inequality place, the person in the high-inequality location is more likely to deal with these chronic diseases, more likely to deal with these drug and alcohol problems, more likely to actually die sooner than the same person living in a low-inequality environment.
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Economies exploit, rather than challenge these social norms, and so gender inequality intersects with economic inequality, resulting in women being disproportionately represented at the lower end of the economic distribution.
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As a result, average disposable income inequality increased broadly in line with market income inequality But the report is about the west as a whole, rather than Britain in particular.
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From there the gap widens: the most inequality-tolerant Americans see the ideal ratio as 50 to one; compared with 24 to one amongst the most inequality-tolerant in Britain.
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In a new paper in Economics and Politics Vladimir Gimpelson and Daniel Triesman write that across countries there is only a tenuous relationship between (post-transfer) inequality and perceived inequality.
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AND WHEN MILTON FRIEDMAN SAID THAT, TAX RATES HAD COME FROM 91% TO 70% AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY – OR EXCUSE ME, INCOME INEQUALITY WAS 1/153 OF WHAT IT IS TODAY.
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Analyses reveal that air rage is more common in economy class on airplanes, where inequality is physically present, and in both economy and first class when inequality is situationally salient.
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The debate over inequality doesn't coincide with either the rise of Silicon Valley (late '90s, and then again in the early 2000s) or even the rise of income inequality (1980s).
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While this doesn't tell the whole story of inequality, it could be one reason why states like New York and New Mexico, with inequality-reducing policies, still see it growing.
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Democrats cannot cater to white swing voters in affluent suburbs and also promote policies that fundamentally challenge income inequality, exclusionary zoning, housing segregation, school inequality, police brutality and mass incarceration.
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And it's true that income inequality began its huge rise just about the same time that U.S. health care apparently went off the rails: But it's not just income inequality.
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Income Inequality: Rising income inequality has left less of the nation's money in the hands of the middle class, and the traditional retail stores that cater to them have suffered.
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It's worth noting, however, that many experts have pointed to economic inequality, particularly income inequality, as a key contributor to issues around health care, education and even drug addiction recovery.
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People have talked a lot about income inequality, I mean, that's not new, income inequality has existed, I know definitely, in San Francisco since as long as I can remember.
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The Sanders ad was elegant, not only in its artistic execution but also in that it weaves together Sanders's core message of income inequality with a nod to racial inequality.
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So we're making choices day in and day out to navigate the built environment that's constantly reproducing the ways in which inequality, racial inequality, has taken root in our country.
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The inverted-U-shaped relationship that he found between income and inequality—inequality rising in the early stages of development and then falling afterward—came to be called the Kuznets curve.
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Bruenig's main argument for a wealth fund is straightforward — if you care about economic inequality, you have to care about inequality of wealth, which is even more unevenly distributed than income.
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It's one thing to say we have economic inequality; it's another thing to say that we have life expectancy inequality on the order of 15 to 20 percent of people's lifetimes.
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Meyer and Sullivan show that while overall income inequality has risen 29 percent over the past five decades, the increase in consumption inequality has been far more modest at 7 percent.
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Rising inequality continues to be a primary concern in China, as many officials see inequality as a chief cause of public unrest and a potential threat to the communist party's survival.
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Ditto huge economic inequality — in the 1920s and 2010s.
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The fact that spending inequality is dramatically smaller than wealth inequality results from our highly progressive fiscal system, as well as the fact that labor income is distributed more equally than wealth.
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During her first week on the job, she said, she told Sanders that he had to treat racial inequality and economic inequality as "parallel issues" — a suggestion she said he ran with.
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He rightly goes beyond inequality of wealth to address inequality of power: how win-win fixes invariably take problems out of the political realm and sub-contract them to unaccountable global elites.
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"I think any candidate seriously aiming to reduce inequality would have a mild increase in tax on the rich to fund higher school spending," says Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford expert on inequality.
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Societies must wait for inequality to flare up before they address it, and once inequality is entrenched, any attempt at redistribution –including electoral battles—will likely meet fierce resistance from the privileged.
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It could lead to good outcomes in the cases of the Gateses if it's matched by a conviction to use the US government to remedy global inequality, not just intra-American inequality.
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"Starting in 2012, IHA's goal was to make sure that artistic critiques of economic inequality could also aim to redress that inequality, not just symbolically but in real, material terms," says Martens.
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Furthermore, it may actually encourage companies to outsource more of their labor needs to contractors, a move that could lead to greater economy-wide inequality, even as it lowers intra-firm inequality.
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However, a mere 2 percent of wealth inequality in the United States is attributable to inherited wealth —even a 100-percent tax on inheritance would have a negligible effect on wealth inequality.
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Metropolitan areas that have seen the most rapidly rising segregation have also seen the most rapidly rising inequality overall, and the researchers argue that growing segregation is one cause of increased inequality.
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It's important to heavily tax the wealthy to raise revenue, cut after-tax inequality, and prevent pre-tax inequality by giving rich people less reason to bargain for higher and higher wages.
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"The casual adoption of policies on the basis of inequality belies the serious disagreement in the research community over the state of understanding of the level and changes in inequality," he said.
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"Atkinson started studying inequality in the late 19923s, at a time when inequality was at a historical low, when there was relatively little interest in it," Dr. Saez said in an interview.
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Usually, there isn't a trade-off between more wealth and less inequality, because if you look across countries, the countries with lower levels of inequality actually have greater levels of social mobility.
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One of the most potent and consistent predictors of violence, across multiple studies, is inequality — so much so that societal violence rates rise and fall almost identically as the levels of economic inequality.
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" "The more fluid race is at the individual level, the more entrenched racial inequality will be at the societal level," they wrote in their paper, "Racial Fluidity and Inequality in the United States.
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But the modest slowdown could be a big part of the explanation for the apparent rise of ethnic nationalism, if combined with another factor: rising inequality, along with considerable fear about future inequality.
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At the time, many Americans believed the new nation would not be afflicted by the problems that accompanied economic inequality because there simply wasn't much inequality within the political community of white men.
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Eight years later, it's difficult to imagine our current discourse on inequality—or the present centrality of inequality as a policy issue to begin with—without the framing and language that Occupy popularized.
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Using data from the U.S. Census's American Community Survey, Zippia mapped out how inequality varies from state to state according to each's Gini coefficient, a measure of income distribution used to gauge inequality.
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Sanders's presidential campaign unveiled its latest proposal to curb inequality in the United States Monday: An "Income Inequality Tax" on companies with massive pay disparities between the executive suite and the median worker.
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It's easier to climb up that economic ladder if you're in a place where inequality is on a human scale, as opposed to the astronomical levels of inequality that we see in America.
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At Demos, we do a lot of research in partnership with political scientists on just how inequality in our democracy is creating inequality in our economy — and what a feedback loop it is.
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Historically, it has been a force for reducing income inequality.
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But it is hardly the final word on American inequality.
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Why it matters: The future of retail will worsen inequality.
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The I.T. revolution has deepened income and wealth inequality, yes.
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Using a different inequality measure leads to slightly different results.
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But stark inequality is also corrosive to our democratic ideal.
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These numbers reflect the extreme level of persistent wealth inequality.
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In fact, private colleges do precious little to combat inequality.
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Where does this leave us in trying to reduce inequality?
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That's creating regional disparity, greater economic inequality, and greater frustration.
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Neither has a comprehensive and conceptually correct measure of inequality.
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The levels of inequality we're seeing now are pretty extraordinary.
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And this inequality is not only a developing world issue.
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So I believe it all comes down to income inequality.
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On planes, inequality manifests in two forms: physical and situational.
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We need more male leaders proximate to issues of inequality.
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Its purpose was to rally younger voters around intergenerational inequality.
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She used her voice to protest against inequality and hate.
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Many believed this was a blatant outcome of gender inequality.
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He's yelled on the state Senate floor about wealth inequality.
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Multinational firms started to be seen as agents of inequality.
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But in truth, wealth inequality has been growing for decades.
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Much political deliberation these days goes into questions of inequality.
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America has higher inequality than any other big rich country.
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Income inequality in the United States is bigger than ever.
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But in certain developed countries, inequality is going-- going up.
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Countries with larger tax cuts experienced bigger increases in inequality.
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Between the lines: Even within the Android ecosystem, there's inequality.
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Additionally, growing income inequality and rising education costs unsettle me.
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It arises from systematic oppression of people and economic inequality.
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Income inequality appears to have declined over the past decade.
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Financial crises increase inequality as often as they decrease it.
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Boushey focuses her research on economic inequality and public policy.
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Increasingly, billionaires are seen as avatars of inequality and greed.
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This, he argued, boosted inequality, share prices and house prices.
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The symptoms are lower growth, less dynamism and greater inequality.
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In part, this reflects the changing nature of world inequality.
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But today, inequality is driven by the differences within countries.
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Structural inequality isn't to blame for those problems: we are.
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Congress's proposed tax bill would undermine STEM and accelerate inequality.
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Chris, let's pivot the conversation and talk about income inequality.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, such extreme economic inequality has not gone unchallenged.
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We're not arguing that it's caused a rise in inequality.
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This excuse is used as a blanket rationalization for inequality.
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But such is the nature of inequality in North Korea.
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Why is warming likely to exacerbate regional inequality in America?
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"Inequality has grown and people don't accept it," Bersani said.
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And you avoid the status inequality that drives everybody crazy.
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Another mentioned her focus on environmental issues and tackling inequality.
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This inequality peaks when a generation reaches its late 50s.
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Second place among voters' concerns now goes to social inequality.
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Farming teaches people to accept inequality and to valorise work.
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Which Nobel prizewinning American economist wrote "The Price of Inequality"?
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Do you think AI naturally exacerbates this sort of inequality?
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Although inequality and pollution have soared, so have living standards.
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Ignorance about the scale of inequality is a global phenomenon.
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Most Americans may dislike a tax bill that increases inequality.
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But economic inequality has been a much more intractable problem.
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He attributes this largely to rising inequality in the West.
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Mr Arnade offers a handy framework for thinking about inequality.
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The vestiges of this inequality are alive and well today.
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Second, we could have huge inequality based largely on luck.
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One common measure of income inequality is the Gini coefficient.
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Worsening income inequality seems to be driving this dispiriting trend.
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Inslee: We'd like to attack income inequality for all people.
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The third reason to shift is to rebalance regional inequality.
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The unemployment rate is 9.4% and income inequality is rising.
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There's more inequality within countries and more disparity across countries.
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And despite these positive figures, inequality did not really budge.
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Maybe men shouldn't be the only voices addressing gender inequality.
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But in an age of skyrocketing inequality, we haven't all
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Do you think the Fed's policies have exacerbated wealth inequality?
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Wealth inequality was one fifth of what it is today.
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He has a universal message about class, race and inequality.
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Branko Milanovic's book Global Inequality, which came out earlier this
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Much of this inequality stems from toxic masculinity and misogyny.
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Income inequality is an inevitable fact in the market economy.
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There are people who care deeply, deeply about economic inequality.
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Areas of interest for Penrose include addressing changing inequality dynamics.
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For Warren, it was all economic inequality, all the time.
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"This is one factor driving higher income inequality," Mitchell says.
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Moreover, by pushing up asset prices, they have spurred inequality.
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The ordeal has raised questions about the effect of inequality.
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The documentary "Inequality for All," featuring progressive economist Robert Reich.
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Do you believe that inequality is making people more narcissistic?
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In 2011, income inequality was almost as low as Canada's.
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These nine innovations sought to tackle global inequality in August.
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Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalisation.
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Nixon pledged to address inequality and fix the subway system.
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Growing income inequality could play a role, especially for adults.
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This pushes up inequality between households, but not between individuals.
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Wealth inequality remains the biggest barrier to running for office.
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A booming economy does not appear to lessen economic inequality.
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Today, income inequality in China is well above most democracies.
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Unpaid internships create systemic inequality while paid internships foster opportunity.
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Growth has slowed in recent years even while inequality increased.
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Health care disparities are a clear reflection of economic inequality.
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Election demographics are not aligned with the demographics of inequality.
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So rewarding innovators does not require broader inequality across society.
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California Today Wednesday: The latest in our series about inequality.
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It's also unclear how much forgiveness would address wealth inequality.
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Inequality doesn't just impact the poor; it inhibits economic growth.
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We need to address economic inequality in a real way.
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Automating Inequality, as well as other books like them, are
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It means accepting embedded economic inequality as the natural order.
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But the data also shows that income inequality remains entrenched.
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In Australia, income inequality is much higher than in Sweden.
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In one of Mexico's poorest regions, they have deepened inequality.
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For four decades, economic inequality has been on the rise.
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Plus, declines in union membership compound racial and gender inequality.
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"People know that inequality is going to happen," she said.
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Instead of creating stability, they have produced inequality and chaos.
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Brazil's inequality shocks the conscience, and leads to obvious injustices,
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The problem is not economic inequality, but those specific abuses.
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It also coincides with the Ford Foundation's focus on inequality.
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And a long line on a documentary for social inequality.
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Both feed on inequality and lack of access to services.
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Should we use wealth, resources or consumption to assess inequality?
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U.S. consumption inequality, which is our ultimate concern, is major.
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Yet Denmark has much lower inequality than we do. Why?
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These losses exacerbate inequality considering agriculture is the largest employer.
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Consequently, inequality worsens, and the cycle perpetuates with greater force.
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I've never had to struggle against gender or racial inequality.
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Klein's analysis suggests that free parking contributes to wealth inequality.
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Sure, we live in an era of staggering economic inequality.
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It also considered obesity rates, income inequality and incarceration rates.
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There is no capital accumulation and therefore no cumulative inequality.
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Biden said Sanders had "authenticity" and "credibility" concerning income inequality.
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And I explain, or at least try to explain, inequality.
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Sanders narrowly beat Biden among voters who prioritized income inequality.
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Think about the ways in which gender inequality is perpetuated.
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For Piketty, rising inequality is at root a political phenomenon.
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"Income inequality is high, wage growth is low," he said.
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Mr. Perry writes about race, structural inequality and urban schools.
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This is, of course, the defining characteristic of high inequality.
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Some extracted millions of their countrymen from poverty and inequality.
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The structures of inequality and oppression have to be dismantled.
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Where there is racism, rising inequality undermines support for redistribution.
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Widening income and wealth inequality appears to slow economic growth.
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These rulings cemented racism and financial inequality into American education.
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If you're still angry about inequality, then you're somehow theatrical.
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But starting around 1970, wealth inequality began to rise again.
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All of the candidates discussed civil rights and racial inequality.
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Income inequality is a growing problem in the United States.
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The 2018 World Inequality Report was released in December 20183.
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Medicaid work requirements build on this bedrock of racial inequality.
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But we're not supposed to talk about inequality or discrimination.
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It also would help to reduce fraud and economic inequality.
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Inequality is easier to ignore in the absence of evidence.
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The chart on inequality and polarization appears on page 161.
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This story of inequality was four centuries in the making.
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Others were concerned about traffic and rising inequality in wages.
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Also: Why eliminating all student debt would worsen economic inequality.
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But the observable scale of inequality is already so massive.
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Those wealth managers, they are like the agents of inequality.
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How can the radical levels of wealth inequality be reversed?
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This growing inequality threatens to upend how the market works.
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As unions have declined, however, socioeconomic inequality has markedly increased.
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Photographs of atrocity always confront us with questions of inequality.
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Income inequality is much lower, and life expectancy is higher.
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The party should be embracing the challenge of economic inequality.
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Economic inequality is always a big issue in this community.
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"Buybacks worsen the income inequality gap," said Drexel Hamilton's Winer.
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And to me, that's just the paradigm of the inequality.
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"The enemy of Mexico is poverty and inequality," he said.
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The second is to reduce energy inequality within particular categories.
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A world of runaway economic inequality leaves our foundations shaky.
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It's also become more public as income inequality has widened.
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The writers study demographic changes in families and social inequality.
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Without these measures, growing inequality in society cannot be redressed.
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Appalled by inequality, our minds turn immediately to its opposite.
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First, we live in a time of great economic inequality.
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I also love talking about income inequality and prison reform.
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Right now, the American economy is suffering from extreme inequality.
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This is where tackling vertical and horizontal inequality comes together.
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Since the early 1980s, inequality in the US has soared.
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Yawning inequality continues to divide the ultrawealthy and everyone else.
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On the subjects of charity and inequality, he was verbose.
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"China still exhibits high levels of inequality," said the report.
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But the financial upheaval accelerated the pace of income inequality.
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He complains of the takeover by a new "inequality regime".
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But in that case, why the incredible surge in inequality?
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Inequality is and remains a serious issue in the US.
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Income inequality plays an important factor in intergenerational income mobility.
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Interestingly, no countries had both high inequality and high mobility.
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Five years later, Fed officials frequently talk about income inequality.
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Meanwhile, 18% chose income inequality, and 9% picked foreign policy.
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Rising income inequality has turned parenting into a competitive sport.
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Climate change ranked above both foreign policy and income inequality.
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The author has become a global authority on gender inequality.
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And it comes at a time of rising income inequality.
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Economic inequality has been rising everywhere in the United States.
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"But you'd still have a big rise in wage inequality."
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Buffett agrees that such extreme wealth inequality needs a fix.
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Rising income inequality is indeed a problem for economic growth.
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Many of Warren's policy positions have focused on economic inequality.
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Billionaires keep getting richer and income inequality continues to grow.
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At the same time, predictably enough, geographic income inequality increased.
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They're about sleep inequality, for want of a better term.
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We hope we're showing possibilities for dismantling capitalism and inequality.
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But inequality has been with us for a long time.
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But stark inequality is also corrosive to our democratic idea.
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Income inequality in our country has become unsustainable and destabilizing.
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It was an era of intensifying inequality, vulnerability and dislocation.
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What of today, when inequality is back in full force?
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Why should this be so, if inequality has not grown?
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There was a time when inequality in America decreased dramatically.
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This has occurred even after adjusting for increased income inequality.
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The movement forced a conversation about police brutality and inequality.
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Income inequality can also be seen on a local scale.
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But it all trickles from this initial system of inequality.
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His research suggests that inequality is inextricably linked to civilization.
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She also referenced her struggle with gender inequality in business.
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He dies when inequality is now very high and growing.
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But the inequality feels like the Chicago of his youth.
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But it isn't just Democrats who are concerned by inequality.
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Five years later, Fed officials frequently talk about income inequality.
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The restrictions also have a crucial role in widening inequality.
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" In another essay from November 2018, "Inequality and Participative Democracy.
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Inequality is the defining economic condition of the tech age.
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Inequality has grown, in numerous ways, a recent report indicates.
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The inequality problem is maybe the most striking for me.
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His focus on income inequality was righteous, and still is.
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As a result, economic inequality has reached Gilded Age levels.
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I'm curious to know how power inequality shapes people's lenses.
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The working Americans have faced increasing income volatility, income inequality.
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Some other business leaders are also worried about rising inequality.
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Still others said inequality is what you make of it.
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There are serious problems with inequality throughout this entire area.
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All of this points to inequality in the house market.
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People want ... They probably begrudge the level of income inequality.
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There's a fundamental inequality when it comes to global emissions.
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So what, then, does the music of inequality sound like?
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I think we all know about the rise of inequality.
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I see sexual harassment through the lens of income inequality.
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Now they're faced with growing inequality and a housing crisis.
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But who does he imagine is responsible for this inequality?
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One study found that the decline in union power and density since 280 explains a third of the increase in wage inequality among American men, and a fifth of the increased inequality among women.
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"Serious business people understand that if you do not tackle economic inequality you can spur social unrest, that actually this kind of economic inequality is undermining growth, which is what they want," she said.
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High-productivity, low-inequality economies like Denmark and Sweden commit about 1% of GDP to retraining and upskilling workers, while countries with greater inequality such as America and Britain spend substantially less than that.
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Reality Check: Sanders says income inequality greater than any year since 1928 By Tami Luhby, CNNMoney Sanders promises to battle income inequality, which he says is greater now than in any year since 1928.
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Paul Krugman I spent much of this politically momentous week at a workshop on inequality, where papers were presented on everything from the causes of wage disparities to the effects of inequality on happiness.
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"Income inequality, measured by Gini, is strongly correlated with homicide over time and space, and Latin America has 15 of the 20 most unequal countries, measured by Gini inequality, on the planet," Muggah said.
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As the 2016 election heats up and income inequality continues to be a key issue for primary voters, Republican candidates should be running towards the debate on income inequality rather than running from it.
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It's worth noting that while the study found statistically significant correlations between in-flight inequality measures and air rage incidents, that does not necessarily mean that the manifestations of inequality are causing the incidents.
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Payne challenges a common perception that the real problem isn't inequality but poverty, and he's persuasive that societies are shaped not just by disadvantage at the bottom but also by inequality across the spectrum.
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Even if inequality has not increased as much as some thought, the evidence is clear that reducing inequality would lower death rates, strengthen social cohesion and social mobility, and decrease homicides, incarceration and crime.
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Dalio has expressed alarm regarding wealth inequality in the U.S, saying in July on CBS' "60 Minutes" that he would declare income inequality a "national emergency" if he were president of the United States.
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And the process that started that was one of economic inequality and the inability and unwillingness of the people vested in the upper, successful parts of the Roman state to address that economic inequality.
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Data: Standardized World Income Inequality Database, Version 5.1; Chart: Andrew Witherspoon / Axios The above chart, drawn from the OECD's recently released annual review of the Chinese economy, shows the difference in income inequality after redistribution.
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But if you go back far enough, before all our economy was fraught with so much inequality—inequality of wages, of wealth, of income, of political power—there was more connective tissue between income classes.
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She claims that a wealth tax could also help limit growing economic inequality by funding programs that would benefit the poorest Americans, but doesn't say by how much it will reduce inequality — or how quickly.
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Income inequality is a hot political topic "now that we have the Trump tax cuts that are driving inequality even more," Neera Tanden, head of the Center for American Progress, recently told The Washington Post.
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"If you have an inequality of two things but the measuring stick is sort of shrunk by a factor which you don't control, then you lose control over what the inequality actually means," Stix said.
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Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listen "Supreme Inequality," the new book by Adam Cohen, argues that over the past 50 years, the United States Supreme Court has exacerbated economic inequality through aggressive jurisprudence.
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And while the scale of this inequality remains a point of dispute, the fact that inequality has life-or-death implications has taken center stage as Democrats look to oust Trump from the White House.
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But when you compare across societies, you find that the average person in a high-inequality society like America is less healthy than the average person in a low-inequality society like Sweden or Norway.
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The Gini coefficient measures the level of inequality in a group: A measure of 247 implies complete equality (everyone gets the same income) and 264 is perfect inequality (one person gets all of the income).
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Student debt is worsening wealth inequality between white and black Americans.
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Critics fear it could exacerbate gentrification and inequality in the area.
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But even at the top, inequality exists for female soccer players.
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Admittedly, there's one narrow way in which inequality has already fallen.
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And that systemic inequality is only compounded in crisis situations. Aug.
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It is 23rd in income inequality, lagging behind Turkey and Slovakia.
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The continuing march of income inequality undercuts broad appeals to prosperity.
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American values and income inequality were solid topics for de Blasio.
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Their clothes might be different, but the inequality remains, said Ehrari.
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And where there is market power, there is often also inequality.
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This requires us to be more creative in dealing with inequality.
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Her aim was to reduce inequality, but she also unnerved business.
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This leaves a grim choice: accept inequality or wish for disaster.
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But in practice, gender inequality is deeply rooted in our society.
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Tad Devine made ads about income inequality in the United States.
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The hardship and inequality this kind of treatment produces is staggering.
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Elizabeth Warren, and billionaire Michael Bloomberg campaign on reducing wealth inequality.
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Poverty and inequality remain omnipresent, and now the economy is struggling.
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Large inequalities of wealth can create political inequality, and vice versa.
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Income inequality has become one of the global economy's greatest challenges.
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Income inequality It's like they always say: the richer get richer.
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The "political capitalism" of China has its own inequality-generating dynamics.
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Within wealthier countries, however, more tech often correlates with deepening inequality.
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Last, we may perpetuate inequality, a relevant subject at the moment.
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Corruption scandals abound and inequality persists, even as Kenya grows richer.
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There's a lot of things happening in our systems of inequality.
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This is the first step toward healing the wounds of inequality.
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Harvard University Press; £23.95Surprisingly little is known about what causes inequality.
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Sunday's ceremony shined a light on diversity and inequality in Hollywood.
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The anti-establishment wave, economic inequality, and xenophobia of our age?
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Go deeper: 2020 Democrats are ready to talk about racial inequality.
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But as inequality rises, differences in status become harder to ignore.
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We need to put an end to abuse, sexual harassment, inequality.
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But that burst of inequality should have self-corrected by now.
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However, it did note that inequality had widened during that period.
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And that will help perpetuate the country's yawning inequality of opportunity.
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Why did you design the society around such inequality in life?
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More bracing still are the data's implications for debates on inequality.
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Pay inequality persists not because of reality, but because of perception.
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Technology may be to blame for the historic rise in inequality.
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The same is true of those supporting intolerance and inequality today.
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Most claims of racial inequality would be brushed aside as divisive.
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The OECD's report looks instead at how inequality evolves with age.
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The German economy has boomed but inequality has continued to grow.
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Income inequality, though falling, is the second-highest in Latin America.
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But that systemic gender inequality doesn't stop at the director's chair.
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Inequality, landscape planning, and now climate change are all human affairs.
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But these reforms bring inequality and a loss of state control.
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And rising income inequality has been linked to higher homicide rates.
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Their movements ameliorated, but did not defeat, institutional racism and inequality.
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That puts climate ahead of income inequality (at 71% for 883rd).
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It also helps explain why the market tends to increase inequality.
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Inequality of this sort depresses human capital, leaving society worse off.
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A powerful executive dismissed gender inequality in his male-dominated industry.
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It quickly morphed into a broader revolt against Macron and inequality.
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We want to show there's inequality in safety in our industry.
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Specifically, he called for more aggressive policies to address income inequality.
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He also hopes messages he relayed about racism, inequality, poverty, etc.
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Our extreme economic inequality is not inevitable, but results from intentional
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The people not benefitting from that income inequality are sore, understandably.
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So I'll go for a candidate who promises to fight inequality.
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Because we have this big problem right now with status inequality.
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That's what it means to live in a high inequality society.
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TB: And of course, the topic of inequality is huge, Will.
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Sanders and Hillary Clinton over inequality and economic policy—and the
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South Africa also must address the serious income inequality, it said.
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Concern over wage inequality is also fully justified by the data.
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Or perhaps inequality itself produces a dynamic that drives down wages.
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The more durable efforts to raise wages should involve combating inequality.
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Economic inequality surged as the rich pulled ahead of the rest.
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Income inequality was mentioned, as was families living paycheck to paycheck.
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Much of this gets to the root of the inequality debate.
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The way we measure inequality is by looking at tax data.
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I think at the heart of this is this inequality problem.
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Inequality between older pensioners and new retirees may also be rising.
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When is war, rather than revolution, the probable outcome of inequality?
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Over in the UK, music industry inequality is not much better.
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Social justice doesn't work, inequality ... You gotta stop talking like this.
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Other trends, however, underscored more concrete concerns about biohacking and inequality.
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Sanders fiercely opposed any legislation he viewed as exacerbating income inequality.
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"This Amazon Go thing," Bessen said, "would lead to growing inequality."
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Inequality is too high and labor force participation is too low.
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People staying put is one reason that regional inequality has risen.
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In practice, governments that succeed in limiting inequality generally do both.
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That says something disturbing about gender inequality in the music industry.
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But Valeant also raises the issues of skewed incentives and inequality.
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Had inequality held constant since 28503, that figure would be $22019,000.
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The government also appears to be getting income inequality under control.
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Catholic case for a holistic approach to climate change, inequality, resource
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Economic inequality was the unfinished business of Dr. King's final years.
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In this way the choice explosion has contributed to widening inequality.
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The minimum wage is intended to alleviate inequality and stabilize labor.
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Youths from both sides of the street speak sensitively about inequality.
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He used the speech to connect economic inequality with authoritarianism worldwide.
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Trump and McConnell have no ideas for dealing with income inequality.
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Rather, ESOP companies tend to have higher wages and less inequality.
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Inequality in access to water is also quickly becoming a problem.
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This process, Autor and other economists argue, can also exacerbate inequality.
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It's similar to Davos attendees discussing inequality without talking about taxes.
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Hong Kong's inequality rating is among the worst in the world.
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Urban Chinese are choking on pollution and confronting growing income inequality.
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His thoughts turned, this season, to the issue of economic inequality.
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Clinton, that there is systemic racism and sexism that foster inequality?
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Or, if she is sincerely concerned about racial inequality, maybe Sen.
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Immigration reform, income inequality and civil rights also come to mind.
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And evidence of social and racial inequality were all around him.
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Economic inequality is one of the great problems of our time.
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If unchecked, economic inequality is an existential challenge to our democracy.
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Such regional differences underscore the inequality of Holocaust knowledge among Americans.
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Read more: Bill Gates is worried about gene editing worsening inequality.
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The report billed itself as a comprehensive agenda to ameliorate inequality.
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Few expect inequality to disappear; many do expect it to lessen.
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So it's in early childhood that the roots of inequality lie.
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There are few bright spots in the landscape of American inequality.
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Not everybody buys the new analysis linking market power and inequality.
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The Gates Foundation takes a targeted approach to solve global inequality.
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As in the United States, income inequality in France is growing.
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School funding still often depends on zip code, which reinforces inequality.
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And our next president must continue to address pervasive economic inequality.
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The angry feel left behind as they have seen inequality explode.
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And so the corset came to symbolize inequality — social and sexual.
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In other words, class inequality stresses everyone out, the study found.
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Melinda Gates is afraid that Americans will forget about gender inequality.
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Income inequality in Hong Kong is at an all-time high.
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"Climate impacts are also going to exacerbate social inequality," Levin said.
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Inequality has risen rapidly in North America, China, India, and Russia.
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Ranked by inequality, the United States surpasses every other advanced nation.
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But in 2017, look for wealth and income inequality to widen.
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Reasons for inequality involve not just institutions but also personal behaviors.
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Many fear technological unemployment as others preemptively denounce future income inequality.
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All right, so let's start with the first one. Inequality. Yeah.
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But liberalization, along with urbanization, also created unforeseen types of inequality.
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Studies also show unions to be important in combating income inequality.
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And we all know that in our democracy, inequality is rampant.
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Star power, bolstered by economic inequality, is pervasive in American society.
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Is it economic inequality and slow median income growth over decades?
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Click through to see what celebrities have said about income inequality.
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Income inequality is at a very high level by historical standards.
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There's income inequality, and there's also a lack of social mobility.
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Today, there is a black middle class, but inequality is entrenched.
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Capitalism has eclipsed its dream for worker opportunity, creating class inequality.
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"It exposes the economic inequality that already exists," Ms. Gould said.
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Digital inequality thus becomes a wedge for opportunities in gig work.
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And there are concerns the packages could further widen economic inequality.
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Economic inequality and racial attitudes work in tandem with each other.
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Indeed, Clinton began talking about wealth inequality at her campaign launch.
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"It's Better Than It Looks" makes many good arguments about inequality.
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They talked about systemic issues, like gentrification, schooling, and income inequality.
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That flies in the face of increasing political anger about inequality.
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The main problem is what David and I call mindset inequality.
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Back in 2011 corruption, poverty and social inequality united the uprising.
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We need to remedy the inequality that put people at risk.
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"That's only perpetuating even more inequality in the school," she said.
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If that sounds like attacking income inequality, that's because it is.
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Ms. Warren delivered some sharp criticism of giant corporations and inequality.
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Traditional religious animosities, exacerbated by mounting social inequality, always shaped events.
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But policy alone would not be enough to overcome gender inequality.
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Inequality is about to explode as taxes for the rich plummet.
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Undergirding such inequality was the PRI's suppression of information and dissent.
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The core of his domestic policy, in fact, was fighting inequality.
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It holds them back professionally, and it models inequality for children.
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The transformation of Rome's army compounded the challenge of growing inequality.
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That's the stuff that ... The efficiency that creates income inequality sometimes.
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One place where gender inequality doesn't affect her is at home.
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"Our goal," Dr. Smith said, "is to eradicate inequality in entertainment."
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There's still not enough housing, still jarring inequality on the streets.
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But economic inequality isn't the symptom; it's the virus that attacks.
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Like Madison, contemporary United States society rejects racial inequality in principle.
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Further contraction of union membership is likely to amplify this inequality.
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The other issues were climate change, income inequality and race relations.
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Frankly, Mr. de Blasio's plan doesn't fix this problem of inequality.
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Income inequality among Asian-Americans nearly doubled from 6003 to 2016.
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Any violation of the exchange can evoke strong feelings of inequality.
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What is the direct link between gender inequality and political instability?
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But there is also the idea that gender inequality is inevitable.
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We need to attack the deep roots of inequality of destiny.
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Many argue that this feeds into a larger problem of inequality.
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But, hey, there is no wealth inequality when everyone is poor.
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When cities flood, our actions often create and re-create inequality.
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He decried inequality and promised wage increases for the working class.
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We have a growing problem with wealth inequality in this country.
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But, from a certain perspective, it's our inequality that's self-evident.
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Racism and inequality shape the ways in which people imagine others.
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Inequality for the territories is also prevalent in Congress and bureaucracy.
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Lam to deal with the unrest by vowing to tackle inequality.
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America's soaring inequality has a new engine: its regressive tax system.
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Income and wealth inequality have been central to several candidates' campaigns.
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Go deeper: Bill Gates: Gender inequality affects every country on Earth
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In many nations, tensions caused by inequality have reached crisis levels.
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It's telling that they're both thrillers about class conflict and inequality.
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But you can't fix inequality — especially if you're benefiting from it.
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The cure for inequality, according to this film, is serial assassination.
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Why does increasing concern about inequality make sense to business leaders?
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Unfortunately, tradeoffs between decreasing inequality and increasing mobility often go unacknowledged.
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The Democrat also spoke on Trump, the midterms and economic inequality.
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" He explains that "inequality in New York City is like Swaziland.
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According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), retirement inequality is growing.
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Income inequality has become a central theme among Democratic presidential candidates.
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America is reckoning with a billionaire class that exacerbates income inequality.
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This division involves more than divergent economic prospects and income inequality.
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Inequality, like slavery, is a chain that binds at both ends.
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Democrats, meanwhile, have focused on slow wage growth and increasing inequality.
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Being royal is expensive, and income inequality is a hot topic.
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It also explains much of the current crisis of political inequality.
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The result is likely to be less prosperity and widening inequality.
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It reinforces misunderstanding that helps increase our terrible economic-inequality problem.
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Guatemala's spectacular levels of inequality have been long in the making.
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Inequality -- and examining the mechanisms behind it -- lies at its heart.
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It comes after years of gender inequality in the music genre.
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Of course they care a great deal about justice and inequality.
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It just so happens that would also help address racial inequality.
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Why do we have to live with such poverty and inequality?
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Workplace consultant Casey Brown is an expert in this pay inequality.
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His criticisms of finance and warnings about inequality are proto-Piketty.
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Inequality has widened significantly in America over the last several decades.
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"Altruistic behavior decreases in times of greater income inequality," Galloway writes.
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But will we really help the poor by focusing on inequality?
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And as equity prices soared under Obama, so did income inequality.
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Economic Scene Is there nothing to be done about galloping inequality?
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Rising housing costs and income inequality have made the problem worse.
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Some of the reasons are structural: technology, demographics and rising inequality.
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Oligarchy or tyranny, economic inequality meant the end of the republic.
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Inequality makes social outcomes worse for everybody - and that's a problem.
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From health care to fighting inequality, Hillary's record speaks for itself.
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Or did the policy achieve its real goal, namely reinforcing inequality?
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The report tracks health, development and inequality data around the world.
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In the 1890s, inequality, partisanship and discontent were all sky-high.
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American tax policy has encouraged this exercise in reducing economic inequality.
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Addressing income inequality is another recurring theme for Mr. de Blasio.
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Venezuela has always been a one-industry economy, with huge inequality.
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They're making their way into an era of accelerating income inequality.
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This is why we say with kangaroo care, we fight inequality.
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The right decries poverty and inequality while discounting rapid economic growth.
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His concerns about partisanship were tied to another contemporary issue: inequality.
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"We're very concerned about this huge inequality thing," said Mr. Pearl.
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Now she's part of a conversation about Indigenous people and inequality.
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It cannot save us soon enough from climate change or inequality.
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There, tax giveaways only exacerbated income inequality and offered no solutions.
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The city's structured inequality got, in effect, another load-bearing wall.
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His tax cuts will widen America's already high levels of inequality.
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Could the technology not then lead to reductions in social inequality?
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And under the Trump administration, income inequality has gotten even worse.
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The latter accounts for three-quarters of the reduction in inequality.
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As income inequality has increased in America, so have achievement gaps.
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Income inequality is one, or salaried... Let me go back. Okay.
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The fact that the inequality is so much, is one indication.
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Or is inequality merely correlating to or reflecting the real problems?
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And evidence of discrimination and inequality still isn't hard to find.
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We can call the past 22012 years the decade of inequality.
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Sanders also calls for fighting "inequality, corruption, oligarchy, and authoritarianism" globally.
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Inequality is neither wealth nor poverty, but the distribution of resources.
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You can think of this as the nonprofit sector's inequality problem.
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Economic inequality is one of the biggest issues in society today.
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" Jayati Ghosh, professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at Jawaharlal Nehru University, blamed longstanding inequality in the country on a lack of political will and inefficient domestic policies: "Inequality is a political choice.
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UK Labour leader wants "maximum wage" law to stop inequality UK Labour leader wants "maximum wage" law to stop inequality A new economic approach proposed by U.K. opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn is starting to make waves.
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But a team of economists — led by Facundo Alvaredo, Lucas Chancel, and famous inequality research trio Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman — recently unveiled the 22005 World Inequality Report, which extends the data to 22001.
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The most recent available data for the Gini coefficient, a standard measure of income inequality in a country, is used to separate ties in the ranking, where 0 equals complete equality and 1 equals complete inequality.
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When it comes to solving these issues, Americans across the board believe the federal government should be responsible for solving economic inequality, with most pointing to closing the skills gap as the potential solution for inequality.
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At this year's Photoville festival in New York City, one exhibition, Inequality and Climate Change: The Double Threat to Life on Earth, highlights the growing and deeply intertwined threat posed by economic inequality and climate change.
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Economic inequality isn't throttling the economy; indeed, as Michael Strain pointed out for Bloomberg News this week, inequality has stopped rising over the last decade or so, and if you include government transfers it's going down.
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The high-inequality countries also have more crime, more incarceration, more school dropouts — things that we normally associate with poverty, but in wealthy developed countries, they're actually more closely linked to inequality than to poverty rates.
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Now inequality research is all the rage, and a new culprit is becoming clear: The rules of the economy, meaning the regulatory, legal, and institutional frameworks that underpin our markets, are a major driver of inequality.
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"We talk about income inequality in this country, but ESOPs are a solution to wealth inequality," said Keith Butcher, co-founder and managing partner of ButcherJoseph, an investment bank that specializes in helping companies transition to ESOPs.
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Protests in South Africa over student fees and inequality Protests in South Africa over student fees and inequality Over 830 arrests, a student leader shot 13 times with rubber bullets, and a priest shot with live ammunition.
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Simon Kuznets, a 20th-century economist, argued that inequality is low at low levels of development, rises during industrialisation and falls as countries reach economic maturity; high inequality is the temporary side-effect of the developmental process.
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Income inequality rising... The 7 million richest people in the world (the top 24%) have taken home 25% of all economic growth since 26, according to the 27 World Inequality Report from the Paris School of Economics.
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Yet, looking at incentives can help explain why states that are leaders in mitigating inequality through higher minimum wages or welfare spending on the poor, such as New Mexico and New York, are still seeing growing inequality.
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The Daily Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher For decades, Americans have believed that the best way to end racial inequality is to end class inequality.
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I would never minimize the importance of combating gender inequality or racism/nativism, but if that means ignoring the policies that have led to the enormous inequality we now see, that is not a serious progressive agenda.
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Research shows that declining union membership worsens inequality by depressing worker pay; from 1973 to 2007, as the share of the work force in a union fell sharply, inequality in hourly wages increased by over 40 percent.
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An earlier paper that I co-authored with Kevin Hassett also finds that consumption inequality showed little change through the entire period between 1984 and 2010, even though income inequality rose significantly over the same time frame.
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But inequality of opportunity and the discontent it drives are not new.
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Kraus' team is increasingly looking at the relationship between inequality and race.
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We look around and see an unpredictable global economy and growing inequality.
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Regional inequality has been worsened by restrictive development rules in thriving places.
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The rise of inequality has complex roots, and some aren't easily solved.
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And most importantly, are there the same levels of inequality present here?
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Why it's happening: Growing inequality in the U.S. has dramatically impacted retail.
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As political freedom shrinks, inequality has been exacerbated by an economic crisis.
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We are done tolerating the bigotry, injustice and social inequality on campus.
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The stock market would go down 225% and inequality would drop substantially.
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ROBERT FRANK: We had the biggest decrease in inequality since the 225s.
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Mr Corbyn argued that the country was sick of austerity and inequality.
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Like many things in the United States, inequality in sleep is vast.
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At Home Fighting inequality is highly correlated with fighting hate and discrimination.
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Income inequality is rising and wealth is grossly concentrated at the top.
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Proponents of requiring just that argue raising the minimum helps reduce inequality.
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"Giving 100 people $1,000 doesn't fix wealth inequality," the game's website reads.
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Dalio made the comment about capitalism during a discussion about wealth inequality.
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Democrats have seized on the issue of inequality and some, particularly Sens.
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Although inequality has been steady recently, it has risen since the 1970s.
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"We have widening inequality in health outcomes in the U.S.," Haaga said.
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As a transgender woman, Subramaniam speaks often about gender inequality and empowerment.
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But there are also implications for the burgeoning field of inequality studies.
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Silicon Valley is just one example of growing inequality across the country.
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JASSER: And governance and punishments and the inequality of men and women.
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But today, we have a level of wealth inequality that hurts everyone.
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I've struggled with this quiet inequality at multiple jobs, and I'm tired.
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Income inequality was, after all, the centerpiece of Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign.
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And socialists and progressives admire its promise of poverty and inequality reduction.
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