Big Picture / Human Society / Social Organization & Change / Poverty

Should the mega-wealthy commit to reducing the destructive effects of economic inequality?

Should the Federal Minimum Wage be increased to $15/hour?

What happens when you give basic income to the poor?

Would new-born federal trust accounts level the wage-gap playing field? Is it a fiscally wise and sustainable idea?

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
• shelter for homeless: Volunteers of America
• working poor:
  • Hillbilly Elegy Vance
  • Living in Bootstrap America Tirado

What is the lesser of evils?

• Socialism‘s potential to narrow our staggering worldwide economic inequality?
• 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?

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Further reading

• income inequality:
  • Economics for Inclusive Prosperity
  • Tailspin by Brill
  • Inequality Media
  • Saving Capitalism by Reich
  • Capital in the Twenty First Century Piketty
• one percent:
  • The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits
  • I’m in the 1 Percent. Please, Raise My Taxes by Broad
• supreme court: Supreme Inequality by Adam Cohen