Taxing estates, barely
The tinier the population taxed, the more proponents can champion the tax as "the most progressive" tax we have.
View ArticleHow do they do it?
How families transmit inequality is an area where some of sociology's big ideas are actually being pursued, challenged and tested.
View ArticleRich budget, poor budget
How a $250,000 budget compares with a family's $52,000 for basic needs.
View ArticleSociology wedding sleuth (because you can’t make this stuff up)
Wherein two people with counties named after their families marry, and the NY Times is there.
View ArticleIf we could teach kids one thing
A new article on self control offers a model of scientific method, and reinforces some basic facts about inequality, while showing the limits of what we know.
View ArticleHow much wealth for women? More than 1%
OK, here is enough evidence to tie this thing up.
View ArticleHow the 1% meme obscures global inequality
There is economic inequality between men and women, but gender is not class. And woman does not equal poor.
View ArticleWhat women own: U.S. business edition
U.S. women own a lot of businesses, especially tiny ones in female-dominated industries.
View ArticleExplain to me again how marriage is the problem here
Black married parents are 2.4-times more likely to be in poverty, are 2.1-times more likely to be unemployed, and have one-ninth the median net worth compared with White married parents. Continue...
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