Hot Topics: Income Inequality: Resources

"Lindsey and Teles are realistic about the chances for reform, but they offer a set of promising strategies to improve democratic deliberation and open pathways for meaningful policy change. An original and counterintuitive interpretation of the forces driving inequality and stagnation, The Captured Economy will be necessary reading for anyone concerned about America's mounting economic problems and the social tensions they are sparking."
Publisher:Oxford University Press

"A collection of essays presenting opposing viewpoints on the problems of income inequality in the United States, and the various social issues that affect it. "

Description: Introduction: Red flags -- From poorhouse to database -- Automating eligibility in the heartland -- High-tech homelessness in the City of Angels -- The Allegheny algorithm -- The digital poorhouse -- Conclusion: Dismantling the digital poorhouse.
"Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, employment, politics, health and human services has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems - rather than humans - control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor. In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile"-

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Patterns of Economic Change by State and Area: Income, Employment, and Gross Domestic Product is a special edition of Business Statistics of the United States Personal income and employment by region, state, and area -- Gross domestic product by region, state, and area -- Median income and poverty by state.

Includes bibliographical references and index.-Contents:
Reinterpreting within country inequality -- High and low inequality as historical equilibria -- High inequality, low inequality, and creative destruction -- The distribution of income between nations as a high inequality equilibrium -- Global stratification and the three paths of social mobility.

Good for Historical Context: Table of contents: Description: Introduction: Restructuring inequalities: a gender, class, and race perspective -- Configurations of inequality: intersections of gender, class, and race -- Industrial and postindustrial configurations of inequality: Detroit and Dallas -- Breaking the connection: occupational gender segregation and the gender wage gap -- Difference class makes: the gender gap among the college- and non-college-educated -- Difference gender makes: wage inequality among women and among men -- Conclusion: History and politics of inequality reconsidered.

Chapter five: -- Equal Pay Act (EPA) -- "Guerin and Barreiro explain, in plain English, the twenty most important federal employment laws that come up in the workplace. "

Wages: Income class by age, pages 286-320
-- Employment and labor force status -- Income and poverty--This publication provides a wide range of characteristics profiling the demographic, social, and economic status of the millennial generation.