Stigmabase | North America

What can we do about inequality ? - why is income and social inequality still widespread? One critical obstacle is the political difficulty in taxing the rich and powerful to pay for the poor. Globalisation makes progressive taxation difficult, because the wealthy can always shift funds abroad to escape taxation. The recent US tax reductions ...

What can we do about inequality ? - All triplets are now manifested in the Trumpist debate in America . Inequality has risen because of four fundamental forces – geography, demography, technology and governance. Firstly, geography matters because the best jobs and wealth are created in advanced cities in the growing economies.

How Such a Rich Country Managed to Have So Many Poor People and What We Can Do About It  - Runaway inequality is upending how we see ourselves and how we govern. It is upending the American Dream (the cherished idea that life gets better ...