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Lisa Eriksen

A Relentless Widening of Disparity in Wealth - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Lisa Eriksen on 12 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Professor Piketty offers early-20th-century France as an example. “France was a democracy and yet the system did not respond to an incredible concentration of wealth and an incredible level of inequality,” he said. “The elites just refused to see it. They kept claiming that the free market was going to solve everything.”It didn’t.
  • Lisa Eriksen on 12 Mar 14
     
    Perhaps we should just focus on high-level, individual donors since they will own most all of the wealth?
Karen Wade

School spending by affluent is widening wealth gap - 0 views

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shared by Karen Wade on 02 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Karen Wade on 02 Oct 14
     
    What can museums do to help even out the gap in educational opportunities?
Ruth Cuadra

11 fascinating trends affecting travel & attractions - 0 views

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  • Ruth Cuadra on 06 Jun 15
     
    Everything from gamification to the growing wealth gap and rising divorce rates influences travel, believe it or not.
Elizabeth Merritt

Economists Pin More Blame on Tech for Rising Inequality - The New York Times - 1 views

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shared by Elizabeth Merritt on 11 Jan 22 - No Cached
  • Half or more of the increasing gap in wages among American workers over the last 40 years is attributable to the automation of tasks formerly done by human workers, especially men without college degrees, according to some of his recent research.
  • tax changes to pursue “labor-friendly innovations.”
  • the technological shift evolved as growth in postsecondary education slowed and companies began spending less on training their workers. “When technology, education and training move together, you get shared prosperity,” said Lawrence Katz, a labor economist at Harvard. “Otherwise, you don’t.”
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Karen Wade

Developers dive in to create a wealth of autism apps - latimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Karen Wade on 30 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Karen Wade on 30 Apr 13
     
    New apps to reach people with autism
Elizabeth Merritt

Biden 'Billionaire' Tax Proposal Could Spur Changes in How the Wealthiest Give - 0 views

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shared by Elizabeth Merritt on 07 Apr 22 - No Cached
  • The change also could trigger a short-term burst of giving by donors who benefit from today’s tax rules and want to take advantage of them before the changes take effect
  • Another way the proposal could spur more giving is that is that some wealthy people might want to give enough away to stay under the $100 million annual threshold,
  • people would be less likely to hold on to their assets if they have to pay taxes every year on the increase in value.
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  • he wealthiest people often have extremely complicated, long-standing financial arrangements, including philanthropic planning that could negate any benefits for donating more under a billionaire’s tax.
  • Owens also noted that current tax law caps charitable deductions at 60 percent of adjusted gross income. If that provision remains in effect, wealthy people who hit that cap even before a billionaire tax is imposed may see no tax benefit from additional giving,
  • Economists who study taxes on the ultra wealthy say they think people overestimate the impact of new taxes on charitable giving.
  • “Sometimes people get the false impression that philanthropy actually is a roundabout way to save money on taxes that exceeds the cost of the gift, and that just isn’t true,” says Duquette. “If you give your money away, then even if you do get some tax benefits, you still have less wealth than you did when you started, so that’s not really a reason why philanthropists do philanthropy.”
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