Highlights
IDEA 1
A call to action
New metrics for a new economic agenda
Heather Boushey
President and CEO and Co-Founder
Washington Center for Equitable Growth
"Adding distribution to our national conversation about our core economic metric could facilitate the diagnosis of what inequality means in our economy and our society. And it could allow us to understand not only how growth is distributed, but what kinds of policies we need to make sure that we are on a stronger path moving forward." |
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IDEA 2
Unsustainable inequalities:
Social justice and the environment
Lucas Chancel
Co-Director of the World Inequality Lab
Paris School of Economics
On the need to map and track social-ecological inequalities: "We live in a data-abundant world, but we do not have the public service of inequality data. This is true when you think about income and wealth, but this is even more true when we think about who pollutes, which income groups, which geographic areas, and who is impacted by pollution."
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IDEA 3
Investing in low-income children pays us back
Nathaniel Hendren
Professor of Economics
and a Founding Co-Director of Opportunity Insights
Harvard University
For further reading Hendren, Nathaniel, and Ben Sprung-Keyser. 2020. “A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 135 (3): 1209-1318. Interactive site: Explore the estimates at policyinsights.org.
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IDEA 4
To tackle inequality, (re)build worker power
Anna Stansbury
PhD candidate in Economics
Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration
Harvard University
For further reading Stansbury, Anna, and Lawrence H. Summers. The Declining Worker Power Hypothesis: An Explanation for the Recent Evolution of the American Economy. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Spring 2020).
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IDEA 5
Reducing racial disparities in the pre-trial system
Will S. Dobbie
Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
IDEA 6
Reimagining public safety
Thinking beyond the criminal system
Felix Owusu
PhD candidate in Public Policy
Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality
Harvard University
For further reading
Racial Disparities in the Massachusetts Criminal System
Dissecting racial disparities in the Massachusetts criminal justice system |