How Individual Actions Affect Economic Inequality
“Writing last year, the New York University sociologist Guillermina Jasso used two words to describe economic inequality in America: ‘high’ and ‘increasing.’ The most common proposals for turning those descriptors around are big-picture government policies—things like hiking the minimum wage or raising tax rates for the highest earners. But in a paper last year, Jasso, who has been publishing academic work on inequality for four decades, sought a scientific answer to the question of what individuals living in unequal societies can do to mitigate the problem themselves (aside from voting for politicians with similar intentions).”