fun facts

Dollar street.

“Imagine the world as a street ordered by income. Everyone lives somewhere on the street. The poorest lives to the left and the richest to the right. Everybody else live somewhere in between… A team of photographers have documented over […]

fun facts

Realtime income and wealth inequality data.

“Realtime Inequality provides the first timely statistics on how economic growth is distributed across groups. When new growth numbers come out each quarter, we show how each income and wealth group benefits.” A key criticism here is the methodology ignores […]

big ideas

YCombinator Research to run basic income experiment. 

We need more initiatives like this! “We tentatively plan to randomly select 3,000 individuals across two US states to participate in the study: 1,000 will receive $1,000 per month for up to 5 years, and 2,000 will receive $50 per […]