Watch Senator Elizabeth Warren and Paul Krugman address a range of topics, such as consumer safeguards, student loan refinancing, bankruptcy protection, banking controls, minimum wage reform and women’s health care.
Watch French economist Thomas Piketty participate in a panel discussing his new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century at the Graduate Center.
In The New York Times, David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy provide an interactive look at the middle class across countries from 1980 to 2010 using LIS data.
In the Boston Review, Claude S. Fischer explores how average Americans think about inequality, and references Leslie McCall's book, The Undeserving Rich.
In an interview with CUNY’s Folio, Janet Gornick discusses elements of her 2012 commencement speech and why poverty and inequality are growing more important to the current debate.
In this video, panelists and editors discuss "Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries" at its launch.
In this article, David Callahan discusses Leslie McCall's book, The Undeserving Rich.
LIS Director Janet Gornick and World Bank economist Branko Milanovic participated in a discussion on income inequality with William Kelly, the Interim Chancellor of CUNY. The event took place at the Roosevelt Center at Hunter College (CUNY).
In this video, Paul Krugman and Sir Tony Atkinson discuss the connection between economic growth and inequality.
Janet Gornick gives the 48th annual commencement address for The Graduate Center, CUNY.