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RACE IN AMERICA: At 6 p.m. on Tuesdays April 6, April 20, May 4, May 18, June 1 and June 15, Dr. Jennifer Thompson Burns will lead a Race in America: A Reading and Discussion Group through the Troy Public Library. This reading and discussion series will explore the inception, inculcation, and function of race in American society. We will discuss this topic in order to improve our understanding of systematic, and social, inclusion and exclusion in American systems. Our goal is to tease out the implicit ways race serves as a real, and imagined, force in the lives of all Americans. This group will explore racial dynamics in America, expanding beyond the black-white binary and our understanding of race, and develop a d
Ravi Kanbur, Joseph Stiglitz
The societal concern over increasing inequality in income and wealth should be addressed in the first place by a precise accounting of the forces at play, so that policymakers can be correctly informed in their decision-making process. To this end, in this column we present novel evidence exploiting rich microdata from Norwegian registers on the relationship between rates of return on wealth, growth rates of income, and inequality. In other words, the interaction between income from financial and human capital is under analysis, as advocated by Kanbur and Stiglitz (2015): “
We need to focus on the interaction between income from physical and financial capital and income from human capital in determining snapshot inequality”.
The âMake Me Do Itâ Myth
Politicians fear the disruptive power of a mobilized base, even when it helps them succeed. President Barack Obama reacts to a protester as he speaks at the Copernicus Community Center on November 25, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois. (John Gress/Getty Images)
In early 2009, as Barack Obama prepared to move into the White House, a particular historical anecdote rapidly gained in popularity, repeated in dozens of talks and articles as a parable for how supporters should respond to the new president taking office. The story related a New Dealâera encounter between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and a group of activists, usually said to have been led by A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. In the meeting, the advocates laid out a vision of bold action for change that the president could advance with his bully pulpit and his executive power. FDR listened to their position and considered the dem
The Rider, 2017) and featuring Frances McDormand,
Nomadland is a semi-fictionalized reworking of Jessica Bruder’s non-fiction work of the same title. (To be more precise, the full title of Bruder’s book is
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century.)
The work premiered at the Venice film festival and was then screened at the Toronto film festival. It had a one-week streaming release in December and has already won a number of awards, and is expected to collect more. It is an affecting film, with a typically committed performance by McDormand, but, in our view, the universal critical accolades are overdone. There are elements here that need scrutinizing a little more carefully.