Author: Matt Bruenig

Race and Class Part 2

In my last post, I broke down five social indicators — poverty, health coverage, employment, incarceration, and life expectancy — by race and class (using educational attainment to stand in for class). The point was to show that, while the disparities across classes are the biggest, there remains significant racial disparities within classes. This suggests… Continue reading Race and Class Part 2

Class and Race

There was a time a great while ago where leftists struggled over the question of whether race or class is the motive force of oppression and suffering in society. These days, with the intervention of intersectionality and considerable progress in sociology, this question has largely been answered by discarding its faulty premise. It needn’t be… Continue reading Class and Race

The Success Sequence Is Extremely Misleading And Impossible To Code

The “Success Sequence” is explained most recently as follows: Graduate from high school; Maintain a full-time job or have a partner who does; and Have children while married and after age 21, should they choose to become parents. Together, this is supposed to keep your risk of poverty very low. Last week I pointed out that rule (2)… Continue reading The Success Sequence Is Extremely Misleading And Impossible To Code

Issues With The Job Guarantee

The Job Guarantee (JG) is a policy whereby the government guarantees public jobs to all people at a decent wage. It is meant to function like an employer of last resort. I have raised concerns with this idea elsewhere, but have never written a post about it. So let me lay out those concerns here.… Continue reading Issues With The Job Guarantee