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[https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/higher-rates-of-hate-crimes-are-tied-to-income-inequality/ by Maimuna Majumder 23/1/17 FiveThirtyEight] | [https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/higher-rates-of-hate-crimes-are-tied-to-income-inequality/ by Maimuna Majumder 23/1/17 FiveThirtyEight] | ||
The numbers we have are tricky; the data is limited by how it’s collected and can’t definitively tell us whether there were more hate incidents in the days after the election than is typical. What we can do, however, is look for trends within the numbers, such as how hate crimes vary by state, as well as what factors within those states might be tied to hate crime rates. | The numbers we have are tricky; the data is limited by how it’s collected and can’t definitively tell us whether there were more hate incidents in the days after the election than is typical. What we can do, however, is look for trends within the numbers, such as how hate crimes vary by state, as well as what factors within those states might be tied to hate crime rates. | ||
=====Full Employment and the Path to Shared Prosperity===== | |||
[https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/full-employment-and-the-path-to-shared-prosperity/ by Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein 17/11/11 DISSENT] | |||
Levels of unemployment are not the gift or curse of the gods; they are the result of conscious economic policy. The decision to tolerate high rates of unemployment is a choice. It is one that has enormous implications not just for the millions of people who are needlessly unemployed or underemployed but also for tens of millions of workers in the bottom half of the wage distribution whose bar-gaining power is undermined by high unemployment. | |||
