CityLab: The Link Between Race and Traffic Tickets
Cities with more Black residents rely more on “policing for profit”—using traffic tickets and fines as a larger source of revenue.
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Cities with more Black residents rely more on “policing for profit”—using traffic tickets and fines as a larger source of revenue.
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The historian and sociologist W.E.B. DuBois believed that social science data should be evocative.
Dignity and Debt: Student Debt and Racial Disparities Read More »
A federal program to encourage black homeownership in the 1970s ended in a flood of foreclosures.
The New York Times: When The Dream Of Owning A Home Became A Nightmare Read More »
The gap between the richest and the poorest U.S. households is now the largest it’s been in the past 50 years — despite the median U.S. income hitting a new record in 2018, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
NPR: US Income Inequality Worsens, Widening to a New Gap Read More »
The asset-light consumer’s behavior remains largely untested in a downturn—a rising risk—that could hold nasty surprises.
The Wall Street Journal: The Rental Economy is at Risk in a Downturn Read More »
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s plan to push affordable housing into affluent neighborhoods drew applause but also sparked warnings that it would face opposition from communities that have long resisted subsidized housing.
The Commerce Department is developing a methodology for compiling and publishing regular statistics on inequality and plans to publish its prototype measures in 2020.
The Hill: Commerce Department To Develop Stats On Income Inequality Read More »
If you tally all of the Nobel Prizes in the sciences in history, awards have been given to only 21 women, or 3% of the 700 laureates.
PBS: Why The 2019 Nobel Prizes In STEM Struggled With Diversity Read More »
The economists find that dwindling competition has cost the country approximately 150,000 additional homes a year.
The Washington Post: Economists Identify An Unseen Force Holding Back Affordable Housing Read More »
Extreme inequality is troubling both because it fosters gross and wasteful consumption and because it undermines the principle of political equality: Nearly unencumbered transfers of wealth permitted under current law perpetuate those imbalances, creating dynasties of the rich and hampering economic and social mobility.
The New York Times: Rich Kids Can Spare Some Of Their Inheritance Read More »
Tens of thousands of people have received demands to repay alleged overpayments of government benefits – often decades old – plunging them into a Kafkaesque struggle against a faceless bureaucracy.
The Guardian: Zombie Debts are Hounding Struggling Americans. Will You be Next? Read More »
The goal, officials say, is to correct a history of “racially discriminatory” housing policy.
Megacities are too costly and seem immune to reform, while rural America is depopulating and lacks resources.
Bloomberg: Watch Midsize Cities Fight Inequality And Gridlock Read More »
Proposals that base their remedies primarily on formerly redlined areas do not redress the main racial group that was explicitly targeted.
Scarce, unaffordable housing is not a local problem in a few places, but is baked into the 21st-century global city. And it’s worst in the developing world.
CityLab: It’s Time To Acknowledge That The Housing Crisis Is Global Read More »