[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/its-harder-for-black-and-asian-people-to-trust-the-covid-vaccine-heres-what-needs-to-happen_n_5fd39b40c5b652dce5887923](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/its-harder-for-black-and-asian-people-to-trust-the-covid-vaccine-heres-what-needs-to-happen_n_5fd39b40c5b652dce5887923) >"Vaccine distrust and Covid could spell double tragedy for minority groups."

Gaps exist ... let’s learn to close them TOGETHER >"Economic equality is crucial to racial equality. But at nearly every stage of their lives, black Americans have less than whites."

"In reality, the global human population is not increasing exponentially, but is in fact slowing and predicted to stabilise at around 11 billion by 2100. More importantly, focusing on human numbers obscures the true driver of many of our _...Read More_

“College campuses are now among the more economically and ethnically diverse domains of a society that is otherwise increasingly segregated by class and race. This is another far-reaching consequence of postsecondary expansion during the _...Read More_

"In today’s world of what Markovits calls “meritocratic inequality,” these highly skilled workers are not merely productive and desirable employees; they have come to dominate the rest of society from their perches in finance, tech, _...Read More_

“The trigger for people becoming more aware of inequality was the crisis and the slowdown in real growth,” says Milanovic. “It wasn’t a topic on its own that came up just as people saw Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos being rich. It came as incomes _...Read More_

Student debt cancellation as proposed by Warrent and Sanders reduces racial wealth inequality. TLDR in this twitter thread: [https://twitter.com/Econ_Marshall/status/1153329435958890496](https://twitter.com/Econ_Marshall/status/1153329435958890496)

The characteristic of the shift over the past half-century is that of a structural change that despite provoking a series of crises, has not been effectively addressed. The result has been a widespread increase in inequality, interlinked _...Read More_

Wow. This reads like the start of a dystopian dark comedy novel. Such a sad, and likely portentous, fate for such a beautiful place.

“5 million New Yorkers have no rent protection at all. Over half of low-income tenants in the state are currently paying more than 50 percent of their income in rent.” Wild to see this article merely two weeks after I left NYC and set my _...Read More_

"Relevant" detail here: author is literally descended from California land barons and old-money philanthropists

[#debt](/relevant/new/debt) [#inflation](/relevant/new/inflation) [#inequality](/relevant/new/inequality)

"Forget the 1 percent for a moment. It’s the top fifth that rules."

As a parallel: if I come into possession of an EpiPen, and I encounter a child experiencing a severe allergic reaction, the question of whether I am obligated to inject the child is distinguishable from the question of whether I obtained _...Read More_