inequality

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• 10/27/19
  

  The Widening Gap Between the Super-Rich and Other Americans

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “inequality is down,” federal data released this year show that, in 2018, the nation’s income inequality reached the highest level since the U.S. Census Bureau began measuring it five decades before.

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• SOURCE: D.C. Policy Center
  4/23/19
  

  Sarah Jane Shoenfeld on Mapping segregation in D.C.

  For the past several years, Mapping Segregation in Washington DC has been documenting the historic role of real estate developers, citizens associations (white homeowner groups), and the courts in segregating the city.

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• SOURCE: The Activist History Review
  Accessed 3/4/19
  

  The Activist History Review's Latest Issue Features Powerful Essays by High School History Students

  by Bill Horne

  "Their work shows a way in which we might rethink history 'from below,' not just as academic research on marginalized groups, but as scholarship written by non-scholars, activists, and members of disenfranchised communities."

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• 3/18/18
  

  Why It’s Dangerous to Give in to Facile Analogies Between the Last Gilded Age and Our Own

  by Leon Fink

  One lesson is that the history of Gilded Ages is complicated and that should give us hope.

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• 2/25/18
  

  What this Historian Discovered by Traveling the World Will Dishearten Neo-Liberals

  by Annelise Orleck

  Capitalism is ravaging the working class from one end of the globe to the other.

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• SOURCE: Fareed Zakaria GPS (CNN)
  12-10-17
  

  Study: Inequality is a phenomenon of the past 10,000 years

  You can blame the birth of agriculture. 

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• 12-10-17
  

  When the Robots Take Our Jobs

  by Greta de Jong

  Majoring in STEM fields might teach students how to build robots, but studying history will teach them what to do when the robots take their jobs.

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• 11-5-17
  

  Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South: An Interview with Historian Keri Leigh Merritt

  by Robin Lindley

  Her well-timed new book is "Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South."

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  9-12-17
  

  Rules for Radicals

  by Alan Wolfe

  A right-wing economist’s plan to rig democracy for the rich.

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• SOURCE: Moyers & Company
  8-16-17
  

  Forward to Yesteryear! Get Ready for the New Gilded Age

  by Bernard A. Weisberger

  The reel of Trumpian “reforms” always spins backward.

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• SOURCE: Moyers & Company
  7-21-17
  

  How Did We Become A Billionaires’ Republic?

  by Jedediah Purdy

  A new book argues that the Constitution’s framers believed that vast concentrations of wealth were the enemy of democracy — so what happened?

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• 7-16-17
  

  How Much Is a Boss Worth?

  by Lawrence S. Wittner

  Americans favor limiting CEO pay to no more than six times the pay of the average worker. How much more than that CEO’s actually make!

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• SOURCE: Process History
  6-27-17
  

  What pundits and politicians have gotten wrong about inequality

  by Destin Jenkins

  A historian explains the broader dimensions of the wealth gap  –  and how race plays a role. 

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  2-2-17
  

  What Tames Inequality? Violence and Mayhem

  by Walter Scheidel

  Land reform, democracy, education, and technological change do not reliably lessen inequality. Only war does.

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• 4-24-16
  

  What Happened to America’s Good Jobs?

  by Louis Ferleger and Matthew Lavallee

  The world of work is much different today than in the postwar Golden Age when good jobs built the American middle class.

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• SOURCE: Evonomics
  3-14-16 (accessed)
  

  Nobel Prize Economist Says American Inequality Didn’t Just Happen. It Was Created.

  by Joseph E. Stiglitz

  How to keep power at the top of society.

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• 3-6-16
  

  4 Things We Believed a Century Ago – And Need to Remember Now

  by Bruce E. Baker

  #1: People in a democracy have a right to control the parameters of economic activity that shapes their lives.

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• 9-20-15
  

  Was Thomas Jefferson Right? Can We Guarantee Our Pursuit of Equal Happiness by Canceling All Our Debts Every Nineteen Years?

  by Thomas Fleming

  James Madison thought he was horribly wrong. Pope Francis, who has called for the redistribution of wealth, should understand why.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  7-31-15
  

  The 10 richest people of all time

  The list includes Bill Gates and somebody you never heard of:  Mansa Musa.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-9-15
  

  To Each Age Its Inequality

  by Ian Morris

  We can find deep insights on this issue by looking all the way back to the end of the last Ice Age, 15,000 years ago.