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“My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter.”
While the gap between upper middle-class Americans and the working poor widens, grueling low-wage domestic and service work–primarily done by women–fuels the economic success of the wealthy. Stephanie Land worked for years as a maid, pulling long hours while struggling as a single mom to keep a roof over her daughter’s head. In Maid, she reveals the dark truth of what it takes to survive and thrive in today’s inequitable society.
While she worked hard to scratch her way out of poverty as a single parent, scrubbing the toilets of the…
How economic inequality harms societies
We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.
Stop Fixating on Economic Growth
It's time to move away from the cruelty and competition of consumer capitalism toward a more cooperative society.
Is Economic Inequality Increasing in Your City?
A new analysis finds that the largest cities in the U.S. are also some of its most unequal, now more than ever.
Does walkability boost economic mobility?
Intergenerational upward economic mobility—the opportunity for children from poorer households to pull themselves up the economic ladder in adulthood—is a hallmark of a just society. In the United States, there are large regional differences in upward social mobility. The present research examined why it is easier to get ahead in some cities and harder in …
Ten facts about economic gender inequality
Gender is a central concept in modern societies. The promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment is key for policymakers, and it is receiving a growing attention in business agendas. However, gender gaps are still a wide phenomenon. While gender gaps in education and health have been decreasing remarkably over time and their differences across countries have been narrowing, gender gaps in the labour market and in politics are more persistent and still vary largely across countries.
Promoting Personal Wellbeing & Economic Freedom in Your Community
If you’re passionate about the causes that impact your family, community and nation, it couldn’t be easier for you to get involved and make a difference.
How Economic Issues Turned Into Feminist Issues
The next generation of the movement is (finally) embracing the idea that race, gender, and class can’t be divorced from each other.
How Housing Inequality Fuels Economic Inequality
The ability to purchase a home is a major factor in the gap between the economy’s winners and losers.
How Closing the Gender Gap Will Help with Economic Recovery
Both women and men need to take part in closing the gender gap. If everyone plays their part well, everyone will benefit.
Why the Economic Gender Gap Will Eventually Close
Research shows real differences in men’s and women’s economic behavior, but suggests more equitable times to come.
Rallying support for economic fairness? Better chase off the needy
Among the affluent people in affluent neighborhoods, a clear reminder of others’ poverty does not induce a show of generosity.
New Studies Show More Women Making Economic Gains
Women can drive cultural change by wielding economic power wisely
'No women, no growth': regressive laws prevent economic equality, says study
Legal reform urged after World Bank suggests failure to protect women from discrimination denies them workplace opportunities
How Housing Can Determine Educational, Health, and Economic Outcomes
What you can do this new year to increase economic freedom
When we think of the concept “economic freedom” we often think about essential liberties and the factors that make them possible (e.g., free markets, the rule of law, and property right…
The New Markets Tax Credit: How it Works
An animation describing how the New Markets Tax Credit revitalizes low income communities by financing businesses, community facilities, and economic develop...
For Economic Justice, Is it Time for Time Exchange?
Our Village Life’s exchange system lets people purchase and trade goods and services for time as well as money.
Promoting women’s economic empowerment: Mission impossible?
There are two main approaches to addressing social norms while promoting women’s economic empowerment- work within the existing social norms, and design programs and projects that directly target the underlying social norms and beliefs.
Want to ‘change the world’? Embrace the glories of economic scale
As the latest crop of college graduates enters the workforce, many are coming fully loaded with grandiose plans for “social transformation,” “giving back to their communities,” and “making a differ…
