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EMA ZELIKOVITCH, a 24-year-old philosophy graduate in Madrid, takes a deep breath before listing the jobs she has held over the past few years. Whi... (2017)
WITH home-made rabbit pâté and fresh cuts of meat, Rémy Mirleau’s boucherie typifies local France, like the tricolour above the town hall. But in T... (2017)
IN THE litany of bosses’ gripes about Brazil’s inclement business climate, rigid labour laws vie for pride of place with its convoluted tax laws an... (2017)
ALEXANDRA LORAS has lived in eight countries and visited 50-odd more. In most, any racism she might have experienced because of her black skin was ... (2017)
Cities | The Guardian | Life in South America’s largest metropolis is anything but uniform – the city’s core and its periphery are worlds apart ... (2017)
At a food bank in one of Germany’s wealthiest areas, growing poverty sparks anger ahead of upcoming elections. Munich and its surrounding area a... (2017)
Poverty is measured on the basis of income, but that is often too one-dimensional for such a complex phenomenon. Researchers have developed better ... (2017)
As most of you know, I left Uber in December and joined Stripe in January. I've gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about ... (2017)
The Economist, 2017: "A weaker dollar and an energy boom are pushing up pay... "In 2015 median household income, adjusted for inflation, rose 5... (2017)
The City Observatory is a study of modern-day cities and urban development practices. Slowly, the rhetorical battle is being won, as affordable ho... (2017)
Harvard Business Review, 2017: “A survey shows specific traits are critical to women’s success. (2017)
SEATTLE (AP) - Housing prices are soaring here thanks to the tech industry, but the boom comes with a consequence: A surge in homelessness marked b... (2017)
New York Times, 2015. Tom Hanks is an actor, producer and director. His 2011 film “Larry Crowne” was inspired by his years at Chabot College. ... (2017)
The Nation, By Joseph E. Stiglitz, "The Nobel Prize winner argues that an economy dominated by large corporations has failed the many and enriched ... (2017)
2017, "A 27-year-old mayor is implementing a $1 million experiment in guaranteed income for residents of a poor city just outside the Bay Area. Th... (2017)
"What if we implement UBI and it makes everything worse?...Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a l... (2017)
“These days algorithms have taken on an almost godlike power—they’re up in the (data) clouds, watching everything, passing judgment and leaving us ... (2017)
The California Sunday Magazine, 2017: "The College Try: Liz Waite and Kersheral Jessup couldn’t afford a higher education, let alone rent. But the... (2017)
Miami Herald, 2017: "the CEO of Grameen America announced Monday evening that the micro-lending organization for women would be bringing its servic... (2017)
Miami Herald, 2017: "About six out of 10 Miami-Dade County residents are struggling to pay for the basic necessities of food, housing, transportati... (2017)
Reuters, 2017: "India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched a $2.5 billion project to electrify all of the country’s households by the ... (2017)
YCombinator Basic Income Research Proposal. For the past year, we’ve been putting together the best possible research plan to study the effects of... (2017)
For billions, it can mean hours spent collecting water. For almost a million, it means dying from disease. (2025)
Blame Netflix if you like, but it is well placed to survive the work stoppage | Business (2023)
Past the crowds and balconies of Bourbon Street, Mardi Gras Day has started the same way since 1819, with a neighborhood tradition as unexpected as... (2023)
Kate Zernike’s “The Exceptions” tells the infuriating, inspiring story of the sexism faced by female scientists at M.I.T. — and how they fought back. (2023)
Roland Fryer Jr.’s life is a movie script: A man abandoned by his mom and raised by an alcoholic dad became the youngest black professor to ever se... (2022)
The pandemic took the concept of universal basic income out of the hands of Silicon Valley tech bros—and brought it to the people. (2021)
The slaughter of the Herero was genocide, says Berlin | Europe (2021)
If progressivism can’t work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else? (2021)
Nigeria’s Growth Is Unsustainable. Here’s Why. (2024)
Teton County in Wyoming is home to the widest income divide in America, with a median house price of more than $5 million and an average income of ... (2023)
The Impossible Ethical Bargain Behind African Safaris (2023)
It’s easy to blame the other side. And for many Democrats, it’s obvious that Republicans are thwarting progress toward a more equal society.But wha... (2021)
How Can We Avoid the Mistakes of the Past? Eugenics is the idea that people can improve humanity by regulating who is allowed to reproduce and ... (2020)
VICE News Published on Sep 11, 2017 Perennially perched at or near the top of lists of America’s most expensive and affluent cities, San Franci... (2019)
American wealth inequality is staggering. A wealth tax, which would hone in on the money people actually have, rather than just the money we earn a... (2019)
America is the richest country in the world, but it also has one of the biggest divides between rich and poor. What can a zip code reveal about ine... (2018)
Remarks by Ms. Malala Yousafzai (United Nations Messenger of Peace) at the event entitled "Financing the Future: Education 2030". (2018)
CAFOD Published on Aug 16, 2016 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as part of Agenda 2030 Su... (2018)
Bill Gates recently read Hans Rosling's new book "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think." I... (2018)
CAFOD Published on Aug 16, 2016 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as part of Agenda 2030 Su... (2018)
This short film by Stanley Nelson explores the impact of bias within public accommodations as well as the possibilities for a better future. (2018)
Marginal Revolution University Published on Feb 16, 2016 Throughout this section of the course, we’ve been trying to solve a complicated economic... (2018)
VICE News Published on Sep 15, 2017 Canada is often lauded for its healthcare system but if you’re trying to buy a place in Toronto, the housin... (2018)
LastWeekTonight Published on Jul 13, 2014 John Oliver discusses America's growing wealth gap and why it may be a problem in the future. Connec... (2018)
The Rio you won’t see at the Olympics Watch part 1, "2016 Olympics: What Rio doesn’t want the world to see" (2018)
Marginal Revolution University Published on Feb 16, 2016 Throughout this section of the course, we’ve been trying to solve a complicated economic... (2018)
Silicon Valley may be a place of incredible innovation, but some say what most needs to change is its own business culture. A new book called "Brot... (2018)
a16z Published on Jan 21, 2018 Traditional banking services have fallen flat for an enormous segment of the population -- whether because they’... (2018)
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Computer algorithms now shape our world in profound and mostly invisible ways. They predict i... (2022)
Carla Harris talks to Freada Kapor Klein of the Kapor Capital, which invests in entrepreneurs who are women or from multicultural backgrounds. (2018)
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the con... (2023)
At a time when AI and digital platforms are under fire, Orly Lobel, a renowned tech policy scholar, defends technology as a powerful tool we can ha... (2023)
The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when t... (2020)
Elpha is where women in tech talk candidly online. We're a private community where members come for personal and professional development, to start... (2020)
We believe people of all different backgrounds should have the opportunity to participate, shape, and succeed in the founding, funding, and buildin... (2018)
The California Sunday Magazine The College Try Liz Waite and Kersheral Jessup couldn’t afford a higher education, let alone rent. But they worked a... (2017)