“Social assistance provided as charity rather than rights do not prevent poverty but perpetuate it,” 92 groups have said …
Anne Case and Angus Deaton provide a compelling account of the problem, but anemic solutions. The epidemic of deaths …
“An eviction is not a single event in a person’s life. It actually changes the trajectory of a life, …
The human “fight or flight” response gives demagogues like Trump a tool for political manipulation. But we could replace …
The prefixes ‘food’, ‘child’ or ‘fuel’ make life for 14 million poor Britons seem easily fixable. In truth, radical …
Unthinkable: It was good enough for your ancestors, says anthropologist James Suzman By: Joe Humphreys Anyone feeling lockdown guilt – …
The stimulus checks went to help people pay down debt and prepare for an uncertain financial future. The impact …
The rise in poverty was triggered by a lack of new stimulus checks and the end of the $600 …
Juggling Financial Stress And Caregiving, Parents Are ‘Very Not OK’ In The Pandemic By: RHITU CHATTERJEE. — Back in …
Half of adults who say they lost a job due to the coronavirus outbreak are still unemployed By: KIM PARKER, RACHEL …
By: Stella Wamae. — ______________________________________________ Key stats: Africa, with a median age of 19.5, accounts for 16.72 per cent of …
The median worker should be making as much as $102,000 annually—if some $2.5 trillion wasn’t being “reverse distributed” every …
What does a “K-shaped” recovery look like, and what it means for everyday Americans By: MATTHEW ROZSA. — During …
By: Lawrence Wintermeyer. — With enforced shutdowns driving governments to enact emergency stimulus measures and airdrop funds into citizens’ …
The urban job escalator has stopped moving Study shows cities have stopped providing middle-class work in recent decades — …
By: David Brancaccio and Daniel Shin Millions of eligible Americans received an emergency aid payment of $1,200 earlier this year when …
Money buys even more happiness than it used to Jean Twenge Many factors determine happiness, but one has stirred considerable …
Stimulus Checks Just Enough To Plug A Few Financial Holes Right Now by Christian Weller The federal government sent …
Many people are talking about universal basic income (UBI) these days. Giving everyone a guaranteed income could be the solution to many economic …
Wealth inequality is escalating at an alarming rate not only within the U.S. but also in countries as diverse …
Growth is the default setting for modern economies. Humans innovate and improve, find better ways of doing things. Only …
Andrew Yang’s plan to provide $1,000 in government-sponsored payments to every American adult each month — an “allowance for …
Article originally published on June 6th, 2019. In most rich countries, inequality is rising, and has been rising for …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 19, 2019 CONTACT: Ariela Weinberger, aweinberger@rooseveltinstitute.org Toward a Just Economy: How a Universal Basic Income …
Article originally published June 11, 2019. OTTAWA — A cross-party committee of MPs says it’s time for the government …
Article originally published on 05/31/19. The net worth of the average 18- to 35-year-old has plummeted 34 percent since …
Article originally published on June 11, 2019. OTTAWA — A cross-party committee of MPs says it’s time for the …
Article originally published April 12, 2019. The mayor of Brisbane, a small city squeezed between San Francisco and Silicon …
Article originally published on Oct 2, 2018. Many millennials are having a tough time financially launching their adult lives …
Millions of British workers are overqualified for their jobs, according to figures published Monday. Sixteen percent of 16-to-64-year-olds in …
Two competing (or, possibly, complementary?) proposals for resolving income inequality and the hole that four decades of demand-side Reaganomics …
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Bernie Sanders, castigator of the one percent, is a millionaire now. So are Kamala Harris and …
Consider for a moment that from this day forward, on the first day of every month, around $1,000 is …
Middle-class families are seeing their incomes stagnating as they are squeezed by the ultra-rich taking a bigger slice, says …
Automation is appearing everywhere. Ready or not, innovations like robotics, computerized algorithms, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, medical sensors and …
Chicago Alderman Ameya Pawar is worried about the future. He is concerned that a coming wave of automation could …
Sheffield, a 500,000-strong city that narrowly voted in favor of Brexit three years ago, could be the first city …
Basic income is having a whirlwind year, and it was just galvanized even further by the support of Angus …
