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Why does inequality matter?
As a new dad I've been thinking a lot about what a good world needs to look like
Oct 16, 2024
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Public Data Is Under Siege: Why It Affects You
How the systematic erasure of government data is another threat to democracy
Feb 5, 2025
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Why poverty is rising in America
The poverty rate had its largest one-year increase ever and the child poverty rate more than doubled
Oct 4, 2023
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Life Expectancy and Inequality
America is experiencing the greatest gap in life expectancy across regions in the last 40 years
Feb 2, 2021
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Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist on Public Data Under Siege
A recording from Jeremy Ney's live video with Denice Ross
Jan 14
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Life Expectancy and Inequality
Feb 2, 2021
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Alcohol Fuels a Dangerous Divide
Sep 3, 2025
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ICE access to IRS may gut America’s best anti-poverty program
Jun 18, 2025
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Jeremy Ney
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Why homelessness just hit a 15-year high, rising 12% from last year
Jan 10, 2024
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Jeremy Ney
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Poverty
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Alcohol Fuels a Dangerous Divide
Why drinking deaths fall by half by crossing from Nevada to Utah
Sep 3, 2025
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What can America learn from Kenya about fighting poverty?
Evidence from the largest universal basic income program in history, in collaboration with GiveDirectly, and featuring former Mayor of Stockton, CA…
Mar 13, 2024
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Jeremy Ney
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Dustin Palmer
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Why poverty is rising in America
The poverty rate had its largest one-year increase ever and the child poverty rate more than doubled
Oct 4, 2023
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Jeremy Ney
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Life Expectancy and Inequality
America is experiencing the greatest gap in life expectancy across regions in the last 40 years
Feb 2, 2021
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Jeremy Ney
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Housing
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No Room to Breathe: Inside America's Overcrowded Homes
19 million people live in overcrowded homes which hurts health, education, and opportunity
May 14, 2025
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Jeremy Ney
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Homelessness hits all-time high, doubles from 2021
770,000 people were homeless in America in 2024. That is a whopping 18% increase from 2023, the largest percentage increase since 2007
Jan 15, 2025
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Jeremy Ney
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Breaking the Bank: Eggs, Inflation, and the Unbearable Cost of Living
How inflation is pushing inequality to new heights
Nov 27, 2024
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Jeremy Ney
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2023 had surprising improvements in inequality
Wealth, incarcerations, and greenhouse gases seem to be trending in the right direction
Dec 13, 2023
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Jeremy Ney
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Substack Live
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Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist on Public Data Under Siege
A recording from Jeremy Ney's live video with Denice Ross
Jan 14
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Jeremy Ney
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Denice Ross
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Cash for Impactful U.S. Policy
Will $6.25 Billion Change the Lives of Millions of Children?
Dec 11, 2025
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Jeremy Ney
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Dustin Palmer
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Leah Libresco Sargeant
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The Origins of City-Wide Poverty
A conversation with award-winning author and Stanford Law professor Michelle Wilde Anderson
Nov 24, 2025
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Jeremy Ney
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Michelle Wilde Anderson
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The Hidden Nations within our Nation
How regional subdivides may define which policies succeed or fail
Nov 10, 2025
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Jeremy Ney
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Colin Woodard
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Trees and Inequality
With so many Christmas trees in living rooms today, a story on tree injustice felt only right
Dec 24, 2025
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Jeremy Ney
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Michael Tiede
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Cash for Impactful U.S. Policy
Will $6.25 Billion Change the Lives of Millions of Children?
Dec 11, 2025
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Jeremy Ney
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Dustin Palmer
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Leah Libresco Sargeant
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The Electricity Bills are Too Damn High
How data centers and the decline of green energy are raising your utility bill
Dec 10, 2025
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Jeremy Ney
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Joining Derek Thompson and Matthew Yglesias to fight global poverty
GiveDirectly is making a world of difference. Join us in driving that change forward.
Dec 2, 2025
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Jeremy Ney
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The Origins of City-Wide Poverty
A conversation with award-winning author and Stanford Law professor Michelle Wilde Anderson
Nov 24, 2025
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Jeremy Ney
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Michelle Wilde Anderson
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Progress Isn’t Dead Yet
In context, we're seeing some truly amazing advancements in the world in 2025
Nov 12, 2025
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Jeremy Ney
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The Hidden Nations within our Nation
How regional subdivides may define which policies succeed or fail
Nov 10, 2025
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Jeremy Ney
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Colin Woodard
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Why Are They Afraid of Your Vote?
An analytical view on who gets to vote in America and what that means for our democracy
Oct 22, 2025
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Jeremy Ney
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Michael Tiede
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Why Nothing Works: Inequality Edition, with Marc Dunkelman
A conversation on abundance and beyond
Oct 16, 2025
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Jeremy Ney
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Marc J. Dunkelman
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How State Choices Drive Prosperity, with Julie Roginsky
Jeremy Ney's conversation Julie Roginsky, Democratic strategist and former Fox News and CNBC co-host
Oct 13, 2025
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Jeremy Ney
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Julie Roginsky
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Uncovering Injustice in Immigration Court
No representation, massive backlogs, no criminal convictions, and for-profit prisons.
Oct 8, 2025
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Jeremy Ney
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The Next Cancer Catastrophe is Political
Cancer is on the rise for young people, but threats will soon skyrocket
Sep 24, 2025
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Michael Tiede
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Jeremy Ney
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