The Gating of the American Dream - The New York Times
Social mobility in America is fundamentally broken, not because we have hollowed out the middle class but because we’ve hollowed out places, argues the politi...
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Rampant Kleptocracy Feeds Wealth Inequality In A Crumbling American Empire
Learn about kleptocracy and its effects on government spending, power dynamics, and the economic struggles of citizens.
The Abundance Paradigm: The AI Revolution: Where Capitalism Meets Socialism — Part II - Global Research
As AI transforms work and productivity, can abundance be shared widely—or will it deepen inequality, surveillance, and elite control?
Prosperity Comes From Freedom, Not Redistribution
This is the uncomfortable truth: in a free society, inequality is not merely imposed; it is continually generated by human behavior itself.
Are we undermeasuring inflation for lower earners?
We document a new source of fluctuations in inflation inequality. When the cost of upstream inputs rises, varieties within a product category tend to have simil...
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[2605.30264] Exponent spectrum of Lorenz curves and its relation to system's heterogeneity
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.30264: Exponent spectrum of Lorenz curves and its relation to system's heterogeneity
Why Is Economic Inequality the Status Quo?
The latest PSPI issue examines the political psychology of economic inequality and highlights the cognitive processes that sustain high levels of inequality acr...
Are US Corporate Media "Normalizing" the Most Barbaric Policies? - Global Research
A blistering critique of elite media priorities, Amazon labor abuses, and the normalization of war amid rising inequality and nuclear peril.
Tim Worstall
The inequality caused by technological innovation is not a given. Technological innovation reduces inequality, not produces it. Half the species gets free telec...
[2605.28080] Improvement of a Hardy-Littlewood inequality and applications to the boundedness of analytic paraproducts on mixed norm spaces
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.28080: Improvement of a Hardy-Littlewood inequality and applications to the boundedness of analytic paraproducts on mixed nor...
Pay-to-play system keeps a lot of kids out of soccer
Linking sports to childhood education leads to unequal resource distribution, according to new research.
One Of The World’s First Cities Became More Prosperous Without Making The Rich Richer
Archaeologists found an ancient city where inequality actually went down as it grew richer.