Why America’s Wealthiest Men Live 15 Years Longer Than the Country’s Poorest
The gap in income between America’s richest and poorest is larger now than it’s ever been since the…
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The Southeast Has an Energy Problem, and Minorities Are Hit the Hardest
Energy poverty has become so severe in the Southeast that many households pay 600 percent more of their annual income on energy than the national average. In Memphis, the community is banding together to fight back.
This Is Your Brain on Poverty: Breaking Down Barriers
A surprisingly small tweak to the college admissions process yields an impressive increase in the enrollment of low-income students.
This Is Your Brain on Poverty: What’s in a Name?
Program designers are learning that the words they use really matter.
This Is Your Brain on Poverty: The Default Choice
Automatic enrollment in a non-profit food program keeps more kids from going hungry on the weekends.
This Is Your Brain on Poverty: Fewer Choices, More Graduates
Limiting the choices of community college students paradoxically leads to greater academic success.
This Is Your Brain on Poverty
How behavioral economics is opening a creative new front in the fight against inequality.
Working People Are Hurt More by Rising Inequality Than Slow Economic Growth
Unless we radically transform our capitalist system, the working class in the United States faces the likelihood of…
The Presence of the Poor Dampens the Desire to Soak the Rich
New research finds we are less likely to support a tax on millionaires if a destitute person is…
Pacific Standard, January/February 2017 Table of Contents
To get Pacific Standard in print or digital formats, subscribe now. FEATURES A Sober UtopiaIn a remote corner…