Inequality and Poverty

• Billionaires’ Billions Are Increasing Faster Than Ever By Patricia Cohen, The New York Times, June 9, 2026
• Why poverty really plummeted in America By The Editorial Board, The Washington Post, June 8, 2026
• Poverty and Dependency in the United States, 1939–2023 By  Richard V. Burkhauser & Kevin Corinth, NBER Working Paper 34759
• Would America be in recession without the super-rich? The Economist, March 8, 2026
• This state will be the first to offer free child care, regardless of income By Karin Brulliard, The Washington Post, September 18, 2025
• "Understanding Inequality" by Paul Krugman, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
• Why Did the Rich Pull Away from the Rest? Part I July 7, 2025
• The Importance of Worker Power. Part II July 14, 2025
• A Trumpian Diversion. Part III July 21, 2025
• Oligarchs and the Rise of Mega-Fortunes. Part IV July 28, 2025
• Predatory Financialization. Part V August 4, 2025
• Wealth and Power. Part VI August 11, 2025
• Crypto. Part VII August 18, 2025
• The Earned Income Tax Credit at 50: Past, present, and future Brookings Institution, YouTube, June 3, 2025
• Low-Income Renters Can’t Get the Housing Vouchers They Need By Samantha Latson, The New York Times, April 17, 2025
• The Democrats Are in Trouble. This Man Can Save Them. By Daniel Chandler, The New York Times, November 24, 2024 [On John Rawls.]
  
• What Gives Kids a Chance at a More Successful Future? New Study Explains | Amanpour and Company Amanpour and Company, YouTube, Aug. 8, 2024
• Two Cheers for Shrinking Black-White Opportunity Gaps By Richard V. Reeves and Scott Winship, Center for Opportunity and Social Mobility, July 26, 2024
• Who Can Achieve the American Dream? Race Matters Less Than It Used To. By German Lopez and Ashley Wu, The New York Times, July 25, 2024
• Why good news about inequality is awkward for the left and right By George F. Will, The Washington Post, March 22, 2024
  
• 10 Excellent Empirical Papers on Economic Inequality X-thread by @BevansAdvocate, X, January 7, 2024
  
• Do we really live in an “age of inequality”? Why economists are reconsidering the scale of the rise in US inequality. By Dylan Matthews, vox.com, Jan 11, 2024
  
• A new debate is raging on an old subject: How fair is America?  By the Editorial Board, The Washington Post, January 7, 2024
  
• Measuring income inequality: A primer on the debate By William G. Gale, John Sabelhaus, and Samuel I. Thorpe, Brookings, December 21, 2023
  
• Why economists are at war over inequality The Economist, November 30, 2023
  
• Economists Ignored Inequality for Years. Now They Can’t Stop Talking About It. By Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times, November 3, 2023
  
• The One Privilege Liberals Ignore By Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, September 13, 2023
  
• Families, Opportunities, and Data-Driven Narratives By James Heckman and Gonzalo Schwarz, Newsweek, June 29, 2023
  
• A Better Way to Help Families By Binyamin Appelbaum, The New York Times, June 16, 2023
  
• The G.O.P. Plot Against Medicare and Social Security By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, November 3, 2022
• Wonking Out: Stealing Away the Golden Years of the Working Class By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, November 4, 2022
  
• The Shrinking of the Middle-Class Neighborhood By Sophie Kasakove and Robert Gebeloff, The New York Times, July 6, 2022
  
• Private fortunes shouldn’t be abolished. But our society shouldn’t be this unequal, either. The Editorial Board, The Washington Post, August 5, 2021
• Narrowing the U.S. wealth gap is important. Narrowing the racial wealth gap is urgent. The Editorial Board, The Washington Post, July 30, 2021
• How to close the wealth gap from the bottom up  The Editorial Board, The Washington Post, July 26, 2021
• Here’s the smart way to tax the rich The Editorial Board, The Washington Post, July 21, 2021
• The U.S. is growing more unequal. That’s harmful — and fixable.  The Editorial Board, The Washington Post, July 16, 2021
• The 'American Dream' of upward mobility is broken. Look at the numbers By Mark R Rank and Lawrence M Eppard, The Guardian, March 13, 2021
  
• The Plot to Help America’s Children By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, February 15, 2021
  
• Has Wealth Inequality in America Changed over Time? Here Are Key Statistics By Ana Hernández Kent and Lowell R. Ricketts, Open Vault Blog, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, December 2, 2020
  
• How to Fix Economic Inequality? An Overview of Policies for the United States and Other High-Income Economies Peterson Institute for International Economics, November 17, 2020
  
•  Why, When, and How to Teach the Fundamentals of Inequality in Principles By Can Erbil and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, Policy Brief 28, econoflip (blog), August 2020 
• Why Americans Are Dying from Despair By Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, March 16, 2020
  
• Is Economic Inequality Really a Problem? By Samuel Scheffler, The New York Times, July 1, 2020
• Why Do the Rich Have So Much Power? By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, July 1, 2020
• The Bigger Picture | Lecture 5 | Inequality 101 by Branko Milanovic & Arjun Jayadev, INET YouTube channel, January 29, 2020
• What Is Happening Now? | Lecture 4 | Inequality 101 by Branko Milanovic & Arjun Jayadev, INET YouTube channel, January 29, 2020
• What Is Happening? | Lecture 3 | Inequality 101 by Branko Milanovic & Arjun Jayadev, INET YouTube channel, January 29, 2020
• How Do We Measure Inequality? | Lecture 2 | Inequality 101 by Branko Milanovic & Arjun Jayadev, INET YouTube channel, January 28, 2020
• Why Should I Care? | Lecture 1 | Inequality 101 by Branko Milanovic & Arjun Jayadev, INET YouTube channel, January 28, 2020
  
• The American ideology, on the left and the right, that props up inequality  by James Kwak, The Washington Post, May 22, 2020. [Review of Thomas Piketty's "Capital and Ideology".]
• Thomas Piketty Takes On the Ideology of Inequality  by Marshall Steinbaum, Boston Review, March 25, 2020
• Thomas Piketty Turns Marx on His Head  by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, March 8, 2020 [Review of Piketty's "Capital and Ideology".]
• Thomas Piketty Goes Global  by Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker, March 5, 2020 [Review of Piketty's "Capital and Ideology".]
• How Thomas Piketty lost touch with reality  by Paul Collier, New Statesman, March 4, 2020 [Review of Piketty's "Capital and Ideology".]
• Poverty
• An investor called $140,000 the new poverty line. Experts disagreed but said he had a point. By Julie Zauzmer Weil, The Washington Post, November 29, 2025
• Class, race and the chances of outgrowing poverty in America The Economist, July 25, 2024
  
• What Gives Poor Kids a Shot at Better Lives? Economists Find an Unexpected Answer By Justin Lahart, The Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2024 
• Another Wrong Way to Measure Poverty By Phil Gramm and John Early, The Wall Street Journal, December 5, 2023  
• Why are so many Americans poor? Because we allow it, two books argue. By Timothy Noah, The Washington Post, March 16, 2023 [Review of “The Poverty Paradox” by Mark Robert Rank and “Poverty, by America” by Matthew Desmond.]
• Why Poverty Persists in America By Matthew Desmond, The New York Times Magazine, March 13, 2023
  
• Rebecca Blank, Who Changed How Poverty Is Measured, Dies at 67 By Alex Traub, The New York Times, March 11, 2023 
• The U.S. Is Winning the War on Poverty By Peter Coy, The New York Times, September 15, 2021 
• Anti-Poverty Assistance
• Experts Say SNAP’s Food Budget Doesn’t Match How People Actually Eat By Meghan McCarron, The New York Times, November 14, 2025
• In a Bid to Feed More Families, WIC Diversifies Its Menu By Emily Schmall, The New York Times, October 17, 2024
  
• Tim Walz and the Weird Politics of Free School Lunches By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, Aug. 8, 2024 
• Expanded Safety Net Drives Sharp Drop in Child Poverty By Jason DeParle, The New York Times, September 11, 2022  
• Cash Assistance
• Study May Undercut Idea That Cash Payments to Poor Families Help Child Development By Jason DeParle, The New York Times, July 28, 2025 
• What broad lessons have we learned from 115 studies on unconditional cash transfers? By Tommaso Crosta, Dean Karlan, Finley Ong, Julius Ruschenpohler, and Christopher Udry, VoxDev, May 16, 2025
• Cash alone proves inadequate to solve the problems of the poor By Megan McArdle, The Washington Post, September 3, 2024
  
• The Report Card on Guaranteed Income Is Still Incomplete By Emma Goldberg, The New York Times, August 30, 2024 
• Government’s Pandemic Response Turned a Would-Be Poverty Surge Into a Record Poverty Decline By Danilo Trisi, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, August 29, 2023
  
• Universal Basic Income Has Been Tested Repeatedly. It Works. Will America Ever Embrace It? by Megan Greenwell, The Washington Post, October 24, 2022
  
• Biden Has Helped the Quiet Revolution of Giving People Money By Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times, September 23, 2022
  
• Guaranteed Income Programs Spread, City by City By Kurtis Lee, The New York Times, Sept. 10, 2022
  
• How $1,000 a Month in Guaranteed Income Is Helping N.Y.C. Mothers By Andy Newman, The New York Times, January 18, 2022
  
• The case for a universal basic income by Martin Sandbu, The Financial Times YouTube channel, December 20, 2021
  
• The $60 Billion Plan To Give Every American Baby $1,000 CNBC YouTube Channel, June 22, 2021
  
• The Radically Simple New Approach to Helping Families: Send Parents Money By Claire Cain Miller and Neil Irwin, The New York Times, Feb. 9, 2021
  
• Give Money to Babies By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, Sept. 8, 2020
  
• $1,000 ‘Baby Bond’ Proposed in N.J. in Bid to Narrow the Wealth Gap By Tracey Tully, The New York Times, Aug. 25, 2020
  
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