Related Web Links – Module 78 – Income Distribution and Income Inequality

NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School Poll, 2001 “Poverty in America,” http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/poll/poverty/summary.html

NYT Opinion, August 2009, “Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor?” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/opinion/09ehrenreich.html?pagewanted=all

NYT Opinion, February 2008, Krugman, “Poverty Is Poison,” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/opinion/18krugman.html

World Bank PovertyNet: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/EXTPA/0,,contentMDK:20202162~pagePK:210058~piPK:210062~theSitePK:430367,00.html

NYT, Times Topics, “Income Inequality” includes a number of articles that discuss income inequality that would be suitable for class discussion or assignments: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/income/income_inequality/index.html

This paper links the importance of education with economic growth and income. From Vox, June 2009, “Education and technology: Supply, demand, and income inequality,” http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/3640

How an American in Holland learned to love the European welfare state, NYT April 2009, “Going Dutch,” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/magazine/03european-t.html

Sweden, NYT, February 2006, “Islam on the Outskirts of the Welfare State,” http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/magazine/05muslims.html

The Welfare State in the U.S.:

Newsweek, June 2009, Robert Samuelson, “Our Sinking Welfare State,” http://www.newsweek.com/id/202790