Welfare, Inequality, and Poverty

Governing Health Care through Free Choice: Neoliberal Reforms in Denmark and the United States

Published: | 5:15 pm | Posted in: Neoliberalism

We compare free choice reforms in Denmark and the United States to understand what ideas and political forces could generate such similar policy reforms in radically different political contexts. We analyze the two cases using our own interpretation of neoliberalism as having “two faces.” The first face seeks to expand private markets and shrink the […]

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Differences In Life Expectancy Due To Race And Educational Differences Are Widening, And Many May Not Catch Up

Published: | 4:45 pm | Posted in: Welfare, Inequality, and Poverty

It has long been known that despite well-documented improvements in longevity for most Americans, alarming disparities persist among racial groups and between the well-educated and those with less education. In this article we update estimates of the impact of race and education on past and present life expectancy, examine trends in disparities from 1990 through 2008, and place observed disparities […]

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Why Hasn’t Democracy Slowed Rising Inequality?

Published: | 4:12 pm | Posted in: Inequality

During the past two generations, democratic forms have coexisted with massive increases in economic inequality in the United States and many other advanced democracies. Moreover, these new inequalities have primarily benefited the top 1 percent and even the top .01 percent. These groups seem sufficiently small that economic inequality could be held in check by […]

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