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If you thought workers’ hourly pay was finally rising, think again. At first glance, the latest data – which came out on Feb. 7 – look pretty good.
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According to Atheendar Venkataramani, the study’s lead author and a professor in the university’s Perelman School of Medicine, economic instability can affect people’s mental well-being and drive up the risk of substance abuse.
In such a world, a full-time minimum wage worker would be earning $48,000 a year in the United States.
The same forces that are driving massive inequality between the top 1 percent and the rest of us are creating a vast generational wealth gap between baby boomers — my generation — and millennials.Millennials aren’t teenagers anymore.
An adolescent’s sense of their own family’s social and economic status is closely linked to that teen’s physical and cognitive health, according to a study of British twins.
Rural school closures are causing as much, if not more, upheaval as what’s going on when public schools in Chicago and other cities close.
Hermit crabs can teach us about wealth inequality, according to a new study.
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