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About 13m US children are living below the poverty line, rights group reveals By Chris McGreal (The Guardian)
A Relentless Widening of Disparity in Wealth By Eduardo Porter (The New York Times)
Cocoa’s child laborers By Peter Whoriskey and Rachel Siegel (The Washington Post)
Corporate Profits Grow and Wages Slide By Floyd Norris (The New York Times)
Documenting America's White Nationalists By Julie Platner (Al Jazeera)
Economic Hardship Reporting Project
8 Facts About American Inequality By Pierce Nahigyan (New Internationalist Magazine)
'Hate Is Just Exhausting': Growing Up With—and Running Away From—the Ku Klux Klan By Arvind Dilawar (Pacific Standard)
How ‘Crazy Rich’ Asians Have Led to the Largest Income Gap in the U.S. By Audrey Carlsen and Adeel Hassan (The New York Times)
How the Recovery Left Most Americans Behind By Dave Gilson (Mother Jones)
How the US stole thousands of Native American children By Ranjani Chakraborty (Vox)
How Working-Class Life Is Killing Americans, in Charts By David Leonhardt and Stuart A. Thompson (The New York Times)
In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters By David Leonhardt (The New York Times)
Income inequality is rising so fast our data can’t keep up By Christopher Ingraham (The Washington Post)
Inequality.org
Inequality, Unbelievably, Gets Worse By Steven Rattner (The New York Times)
In Seattle, A Move Across Town Could Be A Path Out Of Poverty By Pam Fessler (NPR)
Louisiana School Made Headlines for Sending Black Kids to Elite Colleges. Here’s the Reality. By By Erica L. Green and Katie Benner (The New York Times)
Low-Wage Workers Are Finding Poverty Harder to Escape By Steven Greenhouse (The New York Times)
Miseducation: Is There Racial Inequality at Your School? By Lena V. Groeger, Annie Waldman and David Eads (ProPublica)
My Husband And I Thought Education Was A Way Out Of Poverty. Now We’re $718,000 In Debt. By Rachel Bevel (HuffPost)
One-third of all slavery is visible from space By Matt Davis (Big Think)
Oxfam: World's Richest 1 Percent Control Half Of Global Wealth By Scott Neuman (NPR)
People Like Us: Social Class in America (website and videos)
Portraits of People Living on a Dollar a Day By Eric Wuestewald (Mother Jones)
Quiz: Let Us Predict Whether You’re a Democrat or a Republican By Sahil Chinoy (The New York Times)
Report: Judges Have Too Much Control In Public Defense System By Carrie Johnson (NPR)
Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
The Fall And Rise Of U.S. Inequality, In 2 Graphs By Quoctrung Bui (NPR)
The Geography of U.S. Inequality By Quoctrung Bui (The New York Times)
The Global Slavery Index
The Middle-Class Crunch: A Look at 4 Family Budgets By Tara Siegel Bernard and Karl Russell (The New York Times)
The Middle Class Is Steadily Eroding. Just Ask the Business World. By Nelson D. Schwartz (The New York Times)
The Most Common Jobs For The Rich, Middle Class And Poor By Quoctrung Bui (NPR)
The 99% Is a Myth—Here's How It Breaks Down (The Atlantic)
The Opportunity Atlas
The Rich Live Longer Everywhere. For the Poor, Geography Matters. By Neil Irwin and Quoctrung Bui (The New York Times)
State of Working America Wages 2018 By Elise Gould (Economic Policy Institute)
Wealth and Poverty (Marketplace)
Wealth Inequality in America (YouTube)
What Does Living In Poverty Really Mean? (NPR)
Where the Poor Live Longer: How Your Area Compares By Gregor Aisch, Quoctrung Bui, Amanda Cox, and Kevin Quealy (The New York Times)
Who Had Richer Parents, Doctors Or Artists? By Quoctrung Bui (NPR)
Why an Heiress Spent Her Fortune Trying to Keep Immigrants Out By Nicholas Kulish and Mike McIntire (The New York Times)
Why Poverty Is Like a Disease By Christian H. Cooper (Nautilus)
Women In Poverty: An American Crisis: Stories from the 2014 Shriver Report (The Atlantic)
Your Local 1-Percenters May Not Be as Rich as You Think By Robert Frank and Karl Russell (The New York Times)