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Inequality: Let’s talk about 95-20 ratios in U.S. cities

A “95-20 ratio” compares the income of the top five percent of a city (the rich, essentially) with the bottom 20 percent (the poor, essentially) across the 50 largest U.S. cities. If the ratio is very high, that means the… Continue Reading

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If you’re single in San Francisco, it’ll take you 17 years of income to buy a home

Easiest Places To Buy A Home In The U.S.

Read it, like it, share it. (Buttons at bottom.)  I pretty much summarize every article Richard Florida writes on CityLab, so I might as well go ahead and summarize this one too. This is about “How Many Years Of Income… Continue Reading

Fuck it, yo. How about an unconditional basic income?

Pay Everyone To Have A Base Quality Of Life

Would probably never work in the United States, and even so — we might be headed there. Continue Reading

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What’s the most economically-segregated city in America?

U.S. Cities Levels of Economic Segregation

Wrote a little bit about this last March, but here’s some new information and ideas around it. This looks at segregation as a factor of income, education, and occupation (as opposed to simply income, which is how a lot of people… Continue Reading

Four ideas we get totally wrong about retirement

Stats about Retirement

The new cover of TIME Magazine — and you can argue over how relevant TIME Magazine is to the modern day, but it’s still a thing millions of people at least glance at on newsstands every week — is a… Continue Reading

The new face of inequality: extracurricular activities

Extracurricular Activities

Think about this all for a second: More extracurricular activities = more positive outcomes for children, generally speaking. From activities like “Debate” or “Varsity Baseball,” (not sure why I put either of those in quotes) they learn teamwork, overcoming adversity,… Continue Reading

Everyone lies, but HOW is based on social class

Lying and Class Level

The reason behind you being a liar is probably based on your socioeconomic status. Continue Reading

The 1% will soon own more than the bottom 50%, eh? We’re all totally doomed.

Top 1 Percent World's Wealth

I think by this point, most people understand the idea that institutionalized wealth is pretty much everything, and the people that have it ultimately strive to protect it, and often they do a pretty good job of doing so. New data is… Continue Reading