Category: Class

You would be surprised how many people do not realize that there are a lot of poor whites in this country. This is especially true among the wealthier white social justice types. For a long time, I assumed that these activists did not care that much about class issues, which is perhaps troubling in some… Continue reading Poverty and race

New post over at Policy Shop. An excerpt: If we are going to have a discussion about the burdens we put on our young people in America, this is what we need to be talking about. Things like the Ruetschlin-Draut report that focus on the most vulnerable, burdened, and miserable youths should be at the… Continue reading Policy Shop: The Horrible Youth Labor Market

Ned Resnikoff has a piece today about high wage retailers, this presumably on the heels of the widely-circulated National Journal piece about the same thing. Both pieces point out that there are high-wage retail firms that are profitable and seem to do pretty well. I was curious as to how much more or less profitable… Continue reading Profit margins for high-wage retailers

A Brookings Institute paper about income inequality has been making the rounds, and for good reason. In the paper, the authors draw upon tax data to determine how persistent income inequality is year to year. That is, do folks move up and down the income ladder year to year or do they basically stay where… Continue reading Income inequality is very rigid

Food deserts are areas that have no nearby access to healthy foods. For a period, there seemed to be a furor about food deserts, but that has died down recently. A variety of studies came out challenging the idea that bringing healthy food options into food deserts would have any impact on the consumption of… Continue reading How big of a problem is food access really?