Should-Read: Bridget Ansel: Weekend reading, “racial health disparities, wealth inequality, and labor market tightness” edition: "Equitable Growth released three new working papers...
...Darrick Hamilton... the role of racism and stigma in persistent racial health disparities.... Jess Benhabib and Alberto Bisin... Mi Luo... wealth distribution in the United States and why it’s so unequal. In a separate column, Nick Bunker digs into the papers’ main findings. Bunker also... asks “Just how tight is the U.S. labor market?” As wage growth continues to be tepid, Bunker’s analysis shows that the labor market is not as tight as the low unemployment rate would have you believe.... Heather Boushey argues that repealing and replacing D.C.’s paid family leave act won’t just harm workers, but businesses, and D.C.’s government and economy as well...
