Featured series 
Tag: Inequality
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Arts & Culture
What ‘good luck’ means to a coal miner
Berlin artist explores labor, pride, and unsung heroes of Germany’s ‘economic miracle’ in Harvard exhibit
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Nation & World
Why we need to break the grip of ‘oldigarchy’
Legal historian’s new book argues older Americans control power, wealth — and lack sense of urgency to fix nation’s most pressing problems
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Health
Part grueling race, part field study
From a bicycle seat, Harvard postdoc sees roadblocks facing rural medicine
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Work & Economy
Gen Z puts high priority on jobs with meaning, purpose, but sees daunting hurdles
School of Ed report says they have concerns over low pay for caring professions, emotionally draining nature of work
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Nation & World
Why are white-Black marriage rates so low?
New research suggests increased exposure between groups results in more couplings across class but not racial lines
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Campus & Community
‘It would have been safer to play nice and not rock the boat.’
Radcliffe medalist Ruth J. Simmons lauded by Michelle Obama, Drew Faust, Tomiko Brown-Nagin for pioneering career
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Nation & World
Over the American dream? Watch this.
Video series spotlights schools, communities where economic mobility is top of mind
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Arts & Culture
A lost archive of Black history
25 years after landmark photography book, Deborah Willis is still scouring albums, attics, cabinets, cards to fill in the record
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Campus & Community
Why are other kids starving?
Witnessing poverty as a child sparked Luiza Lima Vieira’s quest to vanquish hunger — but first, she had to learn to listen to her own body
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Nation & World
How 3 mayors are combating homelessness
City leaders meet to discuss ‘highly visible and highly unacceptable’ crisis
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Work & Economy
‘Harvard Thinking’: Priced out of the American dream
In podcast, experts discuss factors fueling housing crisis — from overregulation to NIMBYism — and how to fix it
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Nation & World
How high school shapes future success
Study associates 2 factors with better long-term outcomes, including higher earnings at age 30
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Nation & World
Want better schools? It’s all up to states.
Education scholar Thomas Kane says that’s lesson of recent ‘Southern Surge’ in test scores
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Health
Why we need Black bioethics
Panel points to historical examples, including Tuskegee experiment, pandemic, and life expectancy inequities
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Campus & Community
Tracing Harvard’s ties to slavery: Recovering names and histories
Researchers delve into probate records, tax lists, and estate inventories to identify enslaved people
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Nation & World
How academia can help America heal
First step, says columnist David Brooks, is to understand its role in the problem
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Arts & Culture
‘Wonder’ director senses your skepticism
But argues ‘radical’ kindness depicted in musical version of bestseller — making world premiere at A.R.T. — might be just what we need right now
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Work & Economy
Why self-appraisals may not be best way to judge job performance
Research shows women, workers of color rate themselves lower; manager ratings tend to mirror them if bosses read rankings before writing their own
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Nation & World
A call for corporate America to step up on homeless crisis
Business School initiative brings together leaders from business, government, academia
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Work & Economy
Anxious about retirement savings? Avoid these mistakes.
Complexity of finance system sets up many for failure, argues economics professor
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Health
In the grip of ‘horror and anger,’ Gawande grows more determined
As global health suffers, his focus on patient-first systems feels more urgent than ever
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Health
Odds of surviving cancer drop drastically when credit score dips
Study explores links between financial stress, mortality risk
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Nation & World
‘Our American compass is still true’
MLK Lecture honoree Darren Walker urges hope, courage in fight against inequality, polarization
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Work & Economy
Shielding Americans from corporate ‘tyranny’
Former FTC chair Lina Khan highlights agency’s role in checking concentrated economic power
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Health
How sexism in medicine continues to endanger women’s health
Radcliffe symposium explores persistent bias in care today, from marginalizing heart disease symptoms to over-diagnosing anxiety
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Nation & World
Rebutting ‘myths of inequality’
Former veteran legislator, economist Phil Gramm argues unequal distribution of wealth inevitable; policy to engineer level playing field is mistake
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Work & Economy
Lawrence Katz named Citation Laureate
Economist’s findings have garnered nearly 26,000 citations across 72 publications
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Nation & World
Turns out two-parent households are no fix for racial inequality
New data-based study debunks long-held notion, finds wide opportunity gaps remain
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Campus & Community
Take a stand, Abdul-Jabbar tells graduating seniors
Writer and basketball legend speaks to the moment in Class Day address
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Nation & World
Let’s not send low-income students back to the ’80s
Financial aid red tape nearly derailed Susan Dynarski’s undergrad dreams. Now she sees decades of progress under threat.
