Equity

Inequality Gap

• Thomas Piketty, Capital
• Robert Putnam, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Race and Class

Contact hypothesis

What's the relationship between race and class?

"Harvard's Class Gap" is a fantastic article on how we're ignoring issues of class to our detriment.

Working Class Whites

Princeton's Anne Case and Angus Deaton, Mortality and Morbidity in the 21st century.

• Mortality rates of whites with no more than a high school degree were around 30 percent lower than mortality rates of blacks in 1999. In 2015, 30 percent higher than blacks.

Nancy Isenberg of Louisiana State University, White Trash: The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America

Arlie Hochschild of UC Berkeley, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

Education

William Bowen (Princeton) looked at 13 selective colleges in 2005. Admissions chances for:

• Recruited athlete increased by 30.2%
• Underrepresented minority increased by 27.7%
• Legacy increased by 19.7%
• First-generation college student increased by 4.1%
• Bottom income quartile, no increase

Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Radford found that, holding academic ability constant, upper-middle class whites 3 times more likely than low-income whites to be admitted to elite colleges.

William Bowen and Derek Bok found that 86% of black students at elite colleges are middle or upper class.

Gender and Sexuality

Women in Labor

UNPRI reports:

"At the current rate of progress, the gender pay gap will not close for over 100 years, and the global average of women on boards will not reach 30% until 2027."

"Women account for two thirds of total work hours globally, yet earn only one tenth of the world’s income."