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“Cap personal wealth at $1 billion”
Today, the International Day of the Worker, wealth inequality in the United States is higher than in any other rich country in the world.
CID is hiring!
CID is now accepting applications for a Research Fellow (RF) with knowledge and experience with advanced computational and statistical methods. The RF will be a central contributor to the new...
Announcing our 2023-2024 CID Emerging Inequality Scholar Awardees
We’re pleased to announce our CID Emerging Inequality Scholars for the 2023-2024 academic year. Congratulations to Neil Christy, a doctoral student in Economics, and Jasmine Simington, a joint...
What Does U.S. Wealth Inequality Look Like?
Most social scientists tend to measure wealth inequality by studying wealth concentration at the very top, or by describing the distribution of wealth across the rest of the population. It can be...
Apply Now for CID Emerging Inequality Scholar Award
Applications due Friday, February 10 CID is now accepting applications for the Emerging Inequality Scholar Award, open to graduate students at the University of Michigan who are interested in...
Have you visited CID? Take a virtual tour of the space
What makes the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics (CID) different from many spaces on the U-M Campus? The space was designed and built in collaboration with faculty from Taubman College of...
Inequality Scholars Spotlight: Davon Norris
Investigating the function and consequence of credit ratings How do we as a society decide what is valuable or worthwhile? Economic sociologist Davon Norris, Ph.D., is working to understand how...
CID Looks Beyond Current Policies at its Fall Retreat
Academics are trained to push beyond the bounds of what is already known about the world. But when it comes to offering solutions, scholars often tend to operate within the bounds of existing policy...
Inequality Scholars Spotlight: Sun Kyoung Lee
Understanding Urban Planning and Segregation in New York “A country and a city of extremes” Did you know American cities are more segregated today than they were 100 years ago? Urban economist and...
CID 2021 Annual Report Now Available
Economic inequality in the U.S. has reached extreme levels, in particular in terms of wealth, and the pandemic has pulled away the curtain on many of the inequalities, injustices, and economic...
