American Inequality

American Inequality

Life Expectancy and Inequality
America is experiencing the greatest gap in life expectancy across regions in the last 40 years
 • Jeremy Ney
Alcohol Fuels a Dangerous Divide
Why drinking deaths fall by half by crossing from Nevada to Utah
 • Jeremy Ney
Why poverty is rising in America
The poverty rate had its largest one-year increase ever and the child poverty rate more than doubled
 • Jeremy Ney
Public Data Is Under Siege: Why It Affects You
How the systematic erasure of government data is another threat to democracy
 • Jeremy Ney
Why homelessness just hit a 15-year high, rising 12% from last year
Rising rents and low housing inventory spur an unprecedented level of homelessness in America
 • Jeremy Ney
The American Inequality book is coming!
Looking at opportunity and inequality in America through data, policy, and communities
 • Jeremy Ney
What can America learn from Kenya about fighting poverty?
Evidence from the largest universal basic income program in history, in collaboration with GiveDirectly, and featuring former Mayor of Stockton, CA…
 • Jeremy Ney and Dustin Palmer
Can our teeth predict inequality?
How bad dental care can lead to lower wages, worse health, and lower life expectancies
 • Jeremy Ney and Zoe Siegel
ICE access to IRS may gut America’s best anti-poverty program
Billions in tax credits to low-income families may go unclaimed due to the fear immigrant families now face
 • Jeremy Ney
Why does inequality matter?
As a new dad I've been thinking a lot about what a good world needs to look like
 • Jeremy Ney
Without health insurance, poverty is just a medical bill away
Remember the Affordable Care Act? We still have a long way to go
 • Jeremy Ney
Inequality is on the ballot
Reproductive rights, immigration, and the economy + some issues you might have heard less about
 • Jeremy Ney
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