Capitalism
Social capital—the strength of an individual’s social network and community—has been identified as a potential determinant of outcomes ranging from education to health1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. However, efforts to understand what types of social capital matter for these outcomes have been hindered by a lack of social network data. Here, in the first of a pair of papers9,
Equality
From The Guardian It’s tempting to blame rightwing evangelicals for what happened last week – but big business also benefits from our loss of autonomy. When I was younger, my ideas about justice, religion, and harm were burgeoning and confused. Then I learned more. I studied and met Black women who were fighting for full reproductive justice:
Capitalism
Capitalists keep trying to co-opt International Women’s Day, a century-old product of the working-class revolutionary movement. But the day belongs to the socialist antiwar tradition. This year’s proud supporters of International Women’s Day (IWD) include such ghoulish merchants of slaughter as Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. But while those profiteers of death help fuel war in
Equality
Misogynistic abuse is rife online but women don’t bother to report it because nothing gets done. Why? Tech companies just don’t care. Read more …
Capitalism
Thanks to social democratic policies, the bottom 60 percent of Danes are better off than the bottom 60 percent of Americans. Even middle-class Danes benefit from a strong welfare state. The only group that doesn’t? The rich. Comparing incomes across countries poses certain difficulties: incomes are paid in different currencies, products have different prices, tax
Capitalism
Inequality has remained persistently high for decades, and a new report shows just how stark the divide is between the richest and poorest people on the planet. Insider reports:The 2022 World Inequality Report, a huge undertaking coordinated by economic and inequality experts Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman, was the product of four years