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Gender in the One Percent
The disparity between the average income of a one percent household and an average household in the 99% is stark: $2,347,494 versus $76,120. The households … Read MoreLove Me Tinder, Love Me Sweet
Are “hookup” apps leading, ironically, to a revival of dating culture on college campuses? In our forthcoming book with Ken-Hou Lin on online dating, Through … Read MoreLa Economía de la Migración
La esencia del argumento económico para la migración es simple: es el mismo que el argumento de los mercados en general. Si la gente toma … Read MoreStability and Change in Americans’ Perception of Freedom
Freedom is one of America’s most cherished values. The cognitive scientist George Lakoff considers it the nation’s “most important idea… at the center of all … Read MoreThe Economics of Migration
Economists broadly agree: the political backlash against immigration in many countries is not economically rational. The evidence strongly supports immigration as, overall, a clear benefit to destination countries. Read MoreDisrupting the Racial Wealth Gap
African-American families possess a dime for every dollar of white families’ wealth. Among policy ideas to remedy this stark racial wealth divide, baby bonds, basic income, reducing student loan debt, and federal job guarantees hold transformative potential. Read MoreA Haunted Generation Remembers
Manbeena is a 29-year-old physician who moved to the U.S. with her family as an infant and has lived there since. There is a lilting … Read MoreThe Struggle to Save Abortion Care
Resisting both physical attacks and widespread policy proscriptions, mission-driven abortion care providers continue working to help their patients. Read MoreEducation’s Limitations and Its Radical Possibilities
Public education aims to grow generations of literate, critical, creative, and civically engaged students who edify and build a living democracy. Somewhere, that purpose has faltered. Read MoreThe Algorithmic Rise of the “Alt-Right”
On a late summer evening in 2017, members of the far-right descended on Charlottesville, Virginia with tiki-torches held up in defense of confederate general Robert … Read More