In their new book, UC Berkeley sociologists G. Cristina Mora and Tianna S. Paschel set out to understand how we make sense of the difference between the California we see in the movies and the ...

“We can either have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few. But we can’t have both,” Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once warned. His concerns ...

I make short, to-the-point online math tutorials. I struggled with math growing up and have been able to use those experiences to help students improve in math through practical applications and tips.

South Africa exhibits one of the highest levels of income inequality globally, reflecting persistent spatial exclusion. This paper examines the extent and causes of spatial inequality using household ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the problem of set-membership filtering for nonlinear dynamic systems with general nonconvex inhomogeneous quadratic inequality constraints. We propose an ellipsoidal ...

Data from the Federal Reserve shows that the so-called K-shaped economy in America is alive and well, with low- and middle-income households falling further behind as the richest Americans pull away.

Bilingual sign on door of frozen food aisle, We accept SNAP food stamp cards, Walgreens, Queens, New York. (Photo by: Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The richest 1% of ...

Imagine society as a ladder with 10 rungs. Where would you place yourself? That answer reflects your subjective social status—where you see yourself in society. Importantly, this is not necessarily ...

Earlier this month, scholars working at the London School of Economics argued, “It’s time to face up to power in the debate about wealth inequality.” The authors note that of the various ways we could ...

From soaring household debt to entrenched labor dualism, inequality – not innovation – has become the defining feature of South Korea’s new economy. South Korea’s post-war economic rise has often been ...