The Hill

Income inequality is gutting the middle class

I care about economic inequality. I teach a class on it. I wrote a book about it. Yet, recently, two different arguments have popped up with a seemingly similar conclusion: economic inequality hasn’t ...
Crain's Chicago Business

For corrosive inequality, look to the upper middle class

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. But the difficult and interrelated questions of why ...
BianetOpinion

Vocational Education Centers: The reproduction of class inequality through education

While upper-class families steer their children toward knowledge, academia, and secure futures, children from lower-class ...
Center for American Progress

RELEASE: The American Middle Class, Income Inequality, and the Strength of Our Economy – New Evidence in Economics

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Center for American Progress unveiled a new paper examining how the strength of the middle class and inequality affect our nation’s economic growth and stability. Despite ...
news.iastate.edu

New ISU report shows growing income inequality evidence of shrinking middle class

AMES, Iowa – Job growth in the retail and service sector has not matched the wages of manufacturing and other middle-skill level jobs lost over the past decade in Iowa. The difference has contributed ...
Star Tribune

Race vs. class: Inequality has shifted debate since Court last ruled on affirmative action

In post-Great Recession America, which is the bigger barrier to opportunity — race or class? A decade ago, the U.S. Supreme Court kept the focus on race as a barrier, upholding the right of colleges ...
The Nation

To Reduce Inequality in Our Education System, Reduce Class Sizes

View of the entrance to Julia Richman Education Complex High School on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. (Anthony Behar / Sipa USA via AP Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 ...