Diverse Readings on Poverty and Inequality

Benjamin Selwyn recommends readings on cultural shifts .

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World Inequality Database

The World Inequality Database provides data on income inequality around the globe.

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Inequality in the U.S.

Joseph Stiglitz reports on the damage done to the economy by inequality in economic policies.

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Facebook Patents Social Class Algorithm

Violet Blue warns that Facebook has patented an algorithm which predicts an individual's social class . Blue inidicates this technology would allow banks and other marketers to "target the lower class, the working class -- which are often people of color, too -- because data shows poor people (those least in a position to take high-interest loans) are more likely than the general population to be so desperate that they'll take on a bad loan."

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Inequality

Preeti Varathan shares the observations of economist Angus Deaton, who said that some forms of inequality are fair, and others are unfair, and that good public policy recognizes the difference between them.

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