#Inequality

Christopher Mims

mims

People with a high school degree or less in the US — that is about half of all Americans — have seen their real wages decline for the past 30

Steven Hamilton

SHamiltonian

The switch from stamp duty (housing transaction tax) to land tax is often framed as a no-brainer. But there’s an underdiscussed trade-off that goes to the heart of a key

Darrell Owens

IDoTheThinking

On the surface: @NathanJRobinson who dresses like this unsurprisingly has a very Conservative and common viewpoint: he likes preserving old capitalist development. He tries to justify it from the left

Historica Canada

HistoricaCanada

August 1st marks the day slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire, freeing enslaved people in Canada. Racial inequality and anti-Black racism are legacies of enslavement. Mark #EmancipationDay by learning

Stephen Reicher

ReicherStephen

As ever, the government wait and wait until we are in a crisis and then suddenly impose emergency measures - such as closing schools. While, tragically, that is now necessary,

Brit Williams, Ph.D.

DrBritWilliams

I don’t eat Taco Bell. But I want to acknowledge that I was making around 10.00 an hour at Target in 2006? when minimum wage was around 5.00. FWIW, yes

CentralHighNPS

CentralHighNPS

1) In April of 1951, 16 year old Barbara Johns lead a massive walk out of the Robert R. Moton High School in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Johns had been

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

SociusJournal

We are excited to announce that all current (and future) #COVID19 research will be part of a new special collection! Here's a recap of what's been published so far, but

Stephanie Ruhle

SRuhle

THREAD: Insights from 2 of the CEOs who met with President Biden yesterday...It was described as a very serious and detailed meeting, where a wide range of topics were discussed.

Cathy Reisenwitz 🏗🌐🥑

CathyReisenwitz

2019 survey: 86% of white evangelical Protestants & 70% of white mainline Protestants and white Catholics said that the “Confederate flag is more a symbol of Southern pride than of

Emily Gray

Emily_IpsosMORI

THREAD: New @IpsosMORIScot poll for @STVNewsSNP support very high – 2x as many would vote SNP as would vote ConservativeSNP most trusted party on key issues: COVID, economy, educationStill a

Marsilio Firenze

marsiliofirenze

With Mars & Venus recently at 0 Virgo, and Sun about to, here's a thread on Regulus. If you don't know about royal stars precessing tropical zodiac by sign, you

Adwait

TierneyFC_

There has been speculation around the Government banning private cryptocurrencies. This thread will detail the real reason why the Govt and Central Banks are keen on banning it- threat to

Nancy Okail

NancyGEO

Today’s disappoint with @france24:they invited to speak, first as part of a debate on Egypt then the journalist apologized that she cannot have me if I’m participating via Skype because

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/7The uselessness of Trump's trade war with China doesn't mean that the US should not act aggressively to address its decades of large trade deficits. It just means that global

Oren Cass

oren_cass

With the post-Trump era underway, the debate about conservatism's future moves ahead. My recent @WSJ @AmerCompass conversation with @GeraldFSeib @GeorgeWill helpfully distills some of the conflicts between the Legacy (Will)

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