Poverty & Income Inequality
Is racial bias already deeply embedded in the secret social algorithms of the computing cloud?
- How do we find it?
- How do we eliminate it?
Engine of Inequality: The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America
by Karen Petrou
Should the mega-wealthy commit to reducing the destructive effects of economic inequality?
- unbalanced tax system:
- uber-rich don’t pay taxes: The Secret IRS Files Propublica.org
- The Whiteness of Wealth by Dorothy A. Brown
- the big picture: Unequal Scenes
Is inequality in America irreversible?
Is it income inequality we are unhappy about? Or is it more about fairness, justice, and opportunity inequality when money tips the scale for the wealthy?
Should the Federal Minimum Wage be increased to $15/hour?
- end all subminimum wages: One Fair Wage
- stop the harassment of service workers wearing masks
What happens when you give basic income to the poor?
- remake the world: Give People Money by Annie Lowrey
- The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
- city experiments: Should Californians Get Guaranteed Income?
- Our Future by Steven Shafarman
Is eviction an epidemic in the U.S.?
- advocacy: Eviction Lab
- all-volunteer: Daily Bread Soup Kitchen: Interview with Miss Ellen sp
- help where it is needed: warm socks
- homeless shelter, food, clothes:
- working poor:
- Hillbilly Elegy Vance
- Living in Bootstrap America Tirado
Why are so many Americans afraid and/or against socialism? What is the Lesser of Evils?
- Socialism’s potential to narrow our staggering worldwide economic inequality? or,
- Capitalism’s potential to create jobs and lift people out of poverty? or,
- A Hybrid’s potential to balance and blend the best features of both economic systems? — sp
Someday….. parents will not have to choose between (a) putting food on the table for their children; or (b) paying for rent to put a roof over their heads; or (c) taking care of their family’s health.
Big Picture / Human Society / Social Organization & Change / Poverty
Income inequality
- plutocracy: Is Inequality in America Irreversible? by Chuck Collins
- food insecurity: Feeding America
- Tailspin by Brill
- Inequality Media
- mortgages
- Fed: Engine of Inequality by Karen
- debt: I Don’t Want To Die Poor by Michael Arceneaux
- Economics for Inclusive Prosperity
- mutual aid networks: Mutual Aid Hub
- Saving Capitalism by Reich
- Piketty:
- podcast: Pitchfork Economics by Nick Hanauer
One Percent
- change: 99 to 1 by Chuck Collins
- wealthy cut in line: The Velvet Rope Economy by Nelson Schwartz
- The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits
- The 1% (sp)
- I’m in the 1 Percent. Please, Raise My Taxes by Broad
The 1% Doth Protest Too Much
The 99% in the U.S. happen to be the ones that go to work everyday and actually do everything: design and engineer the products; manufacture, sell, distribute, repair and maintain the products; and provide all the services we rely on that make companies successful and grow, share valuation grow, and hence, shareholders wealthy. So when some CEOs (the 1%) earn more than 1,000 times the median salary of their employees, maybe the 1% shouldn’t be surprised when workers say respectfully, “What’s up with that?”
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Supreme Court
- Supreme Inequality by Adam Cohen
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