Is inequality bad for economic growth? On Wednesday, just as President Obama was giving his big speech on inequality and the economy, the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, released three new papers on this very topic.
U.S. one dollar bills are arranged for a photograph in London on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. (Chris Ratcliffe - BLOOMBERG) Perhaps the most interesting paper here is economist Jared Bernstein's exploration (pdf) of whether rising income inequality in the United States is bad for economic growth. Government Is Largely Responsible for Soaring Inequality. It's Not an Accident ...
It's Policy America is experiencing unprecedented inequality. INEQUALITY FOR ALL - Politics and Money. Economists Agree: US Inequality Is Killing the Economy. In this Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, file photo, a destitute man sleeps on the sidewalk under a holiday window at Blanc de Chine, in New York The growing gap between the richest Americans and everyone else isn’t bad just for individuals it’s hurting the U.S. economy says a majority of more than three dozen economists surveyed in December 2013 by The Associated Press.
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)A majority of "private, corporate and academic economists" agree: economic inequality in the U.S. is not just hurting individuals and families who struggle to make ends meet; the growing gap in both wages and wealth is harming the economy as a whole. That's according to a new survey by the Associated Press which confirms what progressive-minded economists and policy-makers have been saying since... always. Higher pay and outsize stock market gains are flowing mainly to affluent Americans. Wealth Inequality in America. Wealth Inequality in America. Government Is Largely Responsible for Soaring Inequality. It's Not an Accident ...
It's Policy America is experiencing unprecedented inequality. Government Is Largely Responsible for Soaring Inequality. With Unprecedented Inequality, the US Looks More Like a Dystopia Than Ever. Image: YouTube.
Report: Nearly a quarter of all Americans struggle to afford food. A new Pew Research report on the economies of emerging markets reveals that nearly a quarter of all Americans are struggling to afford food, putting the United States far out of step with other wealthy nations, as Pew notes: Reports of deprivation are closely related to national wealth. For example, in Australia, Canada and Germany — three of the richest countries surveyed in terms of 2012 GDP per capita — roughly one-in-ten or fewer have struggled in the past year to afford food. Meanwhile, in Uganda, Kenya and Senegal — among the poorest countries surveyed — half or more say food for their family has been hard to come by.
The United States is a clear outlier from this pattern. Decolonizing YogaHow Derrick Jensen's Deep Green Resistance Supports Transphobia - Decolonizing Yoga. Millenials Aren’t Lazy: They’re Fucked. Wealth Inequality In America. Rape Is Not An Accident. By Amanda MarcotteWednesday, January 9, 2013 10:06 EDT Dozens of Israeli activists take part in a “SlutWalk” rally in Jerusalem on Friday to protest sexual violence and counter claims that women’s attire or behaviour provoke rape and sexual assault, an AFP correspondent said.
Predominantly young women and some men marched through central streets of the Holy City in minimal or sexually suggestive clothing, chanting slogans and bearing signs. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon) With all attention being paid to rape culture lately—which is good! —I’m seeing a not-so-good consequence of it, which is a number of people, some well-intentioned, perpetuating the myth that rape frequently occurs on accident. A man and a woman drink a lot of alcohol and have drunken, consensual sex. Executive Summary:“Public Opinion and Democratic Responsiveness: Who Gets What They Want From Government?” by Martin Gilens. Gilens examines the extent to which different social groups find their policy preferences reflected in actual government policy and the variation in these patterns across time and policy domains. For example, when Americans with low and high incomes disagree on policy, are policy outcomes more likely to reflect the preferences of affluent Americans?
If so, does the advantage of more affluent Americans differ over time (e.g., depending on which party controls the congress and presidency) or across policy domains? Similarly, are Republicans or Democrats in the population more likely to get the policies they prefer when their party is in control of national political institutions? Because his database contains policy preferences broken down by income, education, partisanship, sex, race, region, religion, and union/non-union status, Gilens will be able to address a multitude of questions concerning government responsiveness to public preferences. Downward mobility haunts US education. 3 December 2012Last updated at 19:03 GMT By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Fall on campus: The US has slipped to 14th in university graduation rates An integral part of the American Dream is under threat - as "downward mobility" haunts the education system in the United States.
The idea of going to college - and the expectation that the next generation will be better educated and more prosperous than its predecessor - has been hardwired into the ambitions of the middle classes in the United States. Millionaires to Washington: More Taxes, Please! A pack of millionaires descended on Washington, DC, Wednesday to tell Congress to take more of their money.
The Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength, a group formed in 2010 to push Obama to allow the Bush tax cuts on millionaires to expire, are back, and lobbying for the same thing as Congress faces the looming fiscal cliff. A dozen or so 1-percenters, representing the group's total membership of about 200, are meeting with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle this week to deliver the message that "we care as much about our country as we do about our money," and that any budget agreement Congress cobbles together in the coming weeks should include fat taxes on the rich. Glenn Greenwald on Two-Tiered U.S. Justice System, Obama’s Assassination Program & the Arab Spring. This is a rush transcript.
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