Income Inequality Archives

Feminism

Wages Against Essential Work

Our undervaluation of traditionally female work is coming home to roost

July 9, 2020 • by Alissa G. Karl

The streets around Highland Hospital, a few blocks from my house in Rochester, New York, are lined with signage “thanking” and “supporting” the “essential” workers who labor there. Many signs are hand-made, propped on porches or taped to light poles; others are mass-produced, like campaign signs, anchored into residential lawns. ...

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Forty Percent of NYC’s Working Families Don’t Make Enough to Afford Basics

A new study determines the amount of income necessary to meet the basic needs of working families without public or private assistance

March 31, 2019 • by Sheena Wright and Merble Reagon

With the cost of living rising at nearly three times the rate of wages, 2.5 million working-age New Yorkers are struggling to provide food, housing, and other basic necessities for their families. United Way of New York City, The Women’s Center for Education and Career Advancement, City Harvest, and The ...

Forty Percent of NYC’s Working Families Don’t Make Enough to Afford Basics

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Fixing Something Starts With Seeing How It’s Broken

Mindy Fullilove Talks About 400 Years Of Inequality

November 24, 2018 • by Mindy Fullilove and Victoria Richards

Victoria Richards: Is there a specific event or defining moment that inspired ‘400 Years of Inequality?’ Mindy Fullilove: The New School has helped us launch this project, which you can find on our website. 2019 will mark the 400th anniversary since the first Africans arrived in Jamestown [as slaves]. The project is ...

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Neoliberalism’s Populist Bastards

A new political divide between national economies

February 15, 2018 • by Quinn Slobodian

This year, attendees at the World Economic Forum might have breathed a sigh of relief, believing that immediate threats to their existence had passed. Yet members of the so-called populist right in Germany and Austria entered parliament after big wins in elections at the end of last year. Their victories ...

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Antifa, Cultural Appropriation, and Income Inequality – LIVE!

Past Present: Episode 101

September 26, 2017 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil debate the historical origins of Antifa, cultural appropriation, and the role of contract labor in an unequal society.

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Antifa, Cultural Appropriation, and Income Inequality – LIVE!

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Who’s Afraid of Workplace Democracy?

Research indicates cooperatives manage resources just as efficiently

January 19, 2017 • by Katarina Spasic

What is so remarkable when it comes to Weil’s notion of oppression is that she insists that oppression is inherent to managerial practice. Her work offers an ethical basis for the critical analysis of management, science, and expertise. One of her famous quotes reads, “When someone exposes himself as a ...