Should-Read: Bridget Ansel: Weekend Reading: “occupational segregation” edition: "Even as income inequality spiraled over the past fifty years, America’s child-poverty rate was cut in half...
...Annie Lowrey writes that government policies played the biggest role.... The racial wealth gap has grown substantially over the past 25 years and looks set to continue for the foreseeable future, writes Tracy Jan.... Elizabeth Winkler writes about newly released statistics on global offshore wealth, which is equivalent to about 10 percent of global GDP. This finding suggests that inequality is even greater than previously thought and — as it is a conservative estimate — inequality might be even higher than it suggests.... Following the Trump Administration’s decision to halt an Obama-era initiative to require companies to file data broken down by race, ethnicity, and gender, Danielle Paquette writes about the various groups that are fighting back...
