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Desmond, Matthew. Poverty, by America. 1st ed. New York: Crown, 2023. https://amzn.to/40Aqzlp
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- Jun 2021
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Some argue that the American elite is functionally an old-fashioned aristocracy that owes its income to nepotism and opportunism. Others argue that the elite is functionally an oligarchy that owes its rising income to a shift away from labor and toward capital. According to this view, elites don’t even need nepotism — they are using preexisting wealth and inheritance to rebuild an old-fashioned feudal class.
So much here to unpack...
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- Feb 2021
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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So which seems likelier: that we're no better off than we were a quarter century ago, or that Shadow Stats is total bunk?
Great Question
This is an easy question to answer from my perspective. For me (age 62) and most of my peers, their kids and their peers, we are NO better off than we were a quarter century ago! A large part is the change from Industrial/Manufacturing to Technology and the outsourced labor and manufacturing. America has changed, this is FACT
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- Jan 2021
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covid-19.iza.org covid-19.iza.org
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Kim. S., Koh. K., Zhang. X., (2020) Short-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Consumption and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Singapore. Institute of labor economics. Retrieved from: https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13354/
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- Aug 2020
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www.nber.org www.nber.org
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Campello, M., Kankanhalli, G., & Muthukrishnan, P. (2020). Corporate Hiring under COVID-19: Labor Market Concentration, Downskilling, and Income Inequality (Working Paper No. 27208; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27208
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