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The Economic Cost of Childhood Poverty, or Is It Inequality?
The American Pediatric Association (APA) Task Force on Childhood Poverty has recently concluded that childhood poverty has far reaching effects on children’s health, the manifestation of which...
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Rocky Mountain Highlights: It’s A Great Time to Be a White Woman in Colorado...
The Women’s Foundation of Colorado recently released the report, The Status of Women and Girls in Colorado. The Denver Post‘s headline, Report: Colorado women’s economic lives better now than a decade...
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New Study Finds Deterioration of Job Quality for Black Workers, Despite...
A new report “Has Education Paid Off for Black Workers?,” from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) describes the stagnation and decline in black labor market-outcomes since the end of...
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New Study: Minimum Wage Jobs Do Not Pay Enough to Meet Basic Needs
A new report, What Families Need to Get By: The 2013 Update of EPI’s Family Budget Calculator, from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) demonstrates that it is nearly impossible for minimum-wage...
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Are We Doing All We Can to Help Our Children?
That income level of a country is an important determinant of its health outcome is now accepted as a stylized fact. Generally, the trends in average levels of health indicators are more encouraging...
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Corporations Be Less Greedy, Give Our Wallets Diabetes
The Daily Show really did a perfect job explaining the political economy of low-wage fast food workers in this clip with John Oliver. Watch, enjoy, get appropriately dismayed at the culture of low-wage...
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Gender Versus Class at Harvard Business School
We all saw the NY Times piece on the Harvard Business School and its frat house, misogynist atmosphere. Now the Times is running a piece saying the class divide among the students is even more of a...
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At Least Get Your Statistics Right
If you are looking for a rage anuerism, I recommend a new piece of crap over at Huffington Post by Wait But Why about why Gen Y’ers should stop complaining and accept the decreased quality of life...
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Whitest Jobs in America
The Atlantic recently published a fascinating review of the whitest jobs in the U.S. in the graph below, following up on their broader discussion of workforce stratification by race from last week. The...
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Shriver Report Finds 42 Million American Women Live In or Near Poverty
A Woman’s Nation has released its third in a series of Shriver Reports, A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink, in partnership with the Center for American Progress. The report investigates the...
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If You Can’t Be With The One You Love, Love The One You’re With
Here at Lady Economist, I am lucky to be doing work that, for the most part, I love (some days more than others). Being a graduate student and a blogger is a privilege that gives me a sense of...
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Does Woman’s “Choice” Include Low Pay?
An interesting article by John Tozzi of Businessweek, based off a report from TriNet, was published a couple months ago, showing salary gaps in the technology sector between male and female workers in...
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#YesAllWomen Deserve Economic Opportunity
The tragic misogynist massacre by a mentally unstable young man in Santa Barbara last week and the #YesAllWomen response has spurred a public discussion the big and small ways that women experience...
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Credit, Check; Purse, Check
Even the financially responsible among us can get a little uncomfortable at sharing our credit scores with strangers. Our financial histories can feel really personal, sometimes embarrassing, and...
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“Time Poverty”, Gender Inequality and Exclusionary Economies: Time to Change...
In recent Gate’s Foundation Letter, Ms. Gates points to the fact that women perform the majority of the unpaid household work, which leaves them with less or insufficient time i.e., time poverty, to do...
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On Health, Women and Economic Empowerment
Delegates from around the World Health Organization’s (WHO) member states are convening these days at the 69th World Health Assembly (WHA) to determine the organization’s policies and agree on a...
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