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Washington, D.C. — Andres Vinelli, vice president of Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress, released the following statement on the Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act: One of the drivers of the ...
New York, NY — The Inequality Matters conference kicks off on Thursday, June 3rd at New York University (NYU), with keynotes by Bill Moyers and Barbara Ehrenreich. The conference will raise an alarm ...
Normative economics is a perspective of "what ought to be" rather than what actually is, dealing heavily in value judgments ...
Destiny developer Bungie has taken to Twitter to speak out against what it calls "a persistent culture of harassment, abuse, and inequality that exists in our industry." The statement, a thread on ...
The severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is clearly seen in the numbers: more than 3.1 million deaths and rising, 120 million people pushed into extreme poverty, and a massive global recession. As ...
Thomas Piketty’s Nature, Culture, and Inequality is a little book that addresses an issue of great significance: is the social inequality we observe every day natural? Drawing on historical economic ...