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Why is Inequality Bad?
Inequalities reverberate and compound because the markets that make up an economy are interconnected, and the actors within each market don’t listen to people’s voices directly. We all know that...
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AAPSS Seeks Papers on Mitigating Inequalities Spotlighted by COVID
With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting nearly every area of household health, social, and economic well-being, individuals and communities across all parts of society are facing unprecedented...
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Inequality and COVID-19: Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’
Social distancing is a privilege. It means you live in a house large enough to practice it. Hand washing is a privilege too. It means you have access to running water. Hand sanitizers are a privilege....
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A Shortened Census Count Hurts Communities of Color
Although the Census Bureau itself had a plan for reaching many communities of color in the United States, facts on the ground will hamper that attempt. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Census...
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Watch AAPSS Fellows Induction Event: Can Democracy Survive Growing Inequality?
Every year, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, or AAPSS, welcomes a group of accomplished scholars and public servants into the Academy as fellows. In the past, this group’s...
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Video: Inequality During COVID-19
“COVID has put a magnifying glass on existing inequalities,” says Jolanda Jetten, a professor of social psychology at the University of Queensland, “and it’s clear that the degree of suffering is...
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Webinar: Myths and Realities of U.S. Inequalities
While poverty and inequality in the United States are appalling realities, it’s safe to say that a substantial body of myth enshrouds the sad facts. Join sociologists Mark Rank, the Herbert S. Hadley...
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Jennifer Richeson on Perceptions of Racial Inequality
LISTEN TO JENNIFER RICHESON NOW! There is inequality in the United States, a fact most people accept and which data certainly bears out. But how bad do you think that inequality is, say, based on...
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Keeping an Eye on Who We Cite – and Who We Don’t
“Make sure you’re not only citing white guys!”That was the unmistakable takeaway Wednesday as Deen Freelon of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill...
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in the video below, social psychologist Jennifer Richeson, whose research into intergroup interactions has created a much deeper understanding of inequality and racism in the United States, delivers...
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