income inequality Archives

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“Not only are such increases necessary to secure investments in badly needed and widely desired public goods like education, health care, and housing, the costs of which are likely the…

ByLeslie McCall 0Comments

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Feb 2024

Economy Labor Opinion

Opinion: Addressing Income Inadequacy and Occupational Segregation this Black History Month

“The occupational segregation and income inadequacy rampant across our state today is the direct consequence of policies that have intentionally excluded and marginalized people of color and women and undervalued…

ByJulia Casey 0Comments

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Oct 2020

Opinion

Opinion: NYC’s Growing Income Inequality Threatens Pandemic Recovery

‘To overcome the wounds of this public health crisis, the city and state need additional funding to address the social and economic vulnerabilities that existed prior to the pandemic, which…

ByBijan Kimiagar

ByJack Mullan 0Comments

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Dec 2019

Economy

Data Drop: How U.S. Income Inequality Looks Through a Racial/Ethnic Lens

Across the races, the top 5 percent of household-income earners are those who have seen the greatest growth.

ByDaniel Parra 0Comments

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Jun 2018

Opinion

CityViews: Myths About Public Benefits Plague Debate in D.C.

‘Narratives about those receiving public benefits depict them as scammers living large off the hard work of tax-paying Americans. This is far from the truth.’ Watch a video op-ed.

ByHelen Strom 0Comments

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May 2018

Economy

Study Reveals Stark Income Disparities and Widespread Stress in Northern Manhattan

Income is up and poverty is down in Central Harlem, West Harlem and Washington Heights. But those neighborhood-wide numbers don’t capture what different segments of each community are experiencing.

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Jul 2016

Opinion

Upper-Middle-Class Socialists Beware: We Can’t Only Blame the 1 Percent

Joel Berg argues that the focus on the 1 percent, and the claim by Bernie Sanders that his backers represented grassroots America, both blur the realities of class, identity and…

ByJoel Berg 1Comment

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Jun 2016

Housing and Homelessness Podcasts

Audio: The ‘Architecture of Rupture’ & the Ideology of Private Sky: New York’s New Skyscrapers

A skyscraper is more than just a building. And Manhattan’s new generation of supertall buildings are more than mere skyscrapers. They are an expression, to some, of wealth’s metastasizing supremacy.

ByGuglielmo Mattioli 0Comments

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Apr 2016

Uncategorized

How NYC’s Food-Stamp Math Hurts Some Low-Income Families

Thanks to a federal policy, the city’s bookkeeping errors can put families needing help in an even bigger hole.

ByShaunee Morgan 3Comments

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Apr 2016

Opinion

Wake Up, Workers: That Supreme Court Decision was a Reprieve, not a Victory

The tied Supreme Court decision in the recent public-sector unions case is a very temporary reprieve for unions. But there’s not a moment of reprieve for the public, and therefore…

ByKatie Unger 1Comment

Opinion: Raising Taxes on NY’s Wealthy is the Right—and Popular—Thing to Do

Opinion: Addressing Income Inadequacy and Occupational Segregation this Black History Month

Opinion: NYC’s Growing Income Inequality Threatens Pandemic Recovery

Data Drop: How U.S. Income Inequality Looks Through a Racial/Ethnic Lens

CityViews: Myths About Public Benefits Plague Debate in D.C.

Study Reveals Stark Income Disparities and Widespread Stress in Northern Manhattan

Upper-Middle-Class Socialists Beware: We Can’t Only Blame the 1 Percent

Audio: The ‘Architecture of Rupture’ & the Ideology of Private Sky: New York’s New Skyscrapers

How NYC’s Food-Stamp Math Hurts Some Low-Income Families

Wake Up, Workers: That Supreme Court Decision was a Reprieve, not a Victory

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