Topic: inequality
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The Potential Problem With Personalized Google Maps? We May Never Know What We're Not Seeing
Google is promising a million maps for a million people with its redesign. But can it avoid confining us to customized urban bubbles?
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Urban Wonk
The Inequality of Urban Tree Cover
Minorities are significantly more likely to live in heat-prone neighborhoods that will be particularly at risk with climate change.
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Charts
How the Young Get Left Out of the Wealth Puzzle
The average wealth of today's 20 and 30-somethings is 7 percent below that of those in their 20s and 30s in 1983.
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Charts
In America, Food Is Getting Cheaper ... Unless You're Poor
New charts explain how America spends money on food.
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Maps
How the Internet Reinforces Inequality in the Real World
What happens to a community with no "digital shadow" on the web?
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Urban Wonk
Brooklyn's Affordability Crisis Is No Accident
Rents are skyrocketing in the borough thanks to inflexible zoning rules.
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UNICEF Wants Us to Talk About Urban Inequality
An online forum invites insight from the people who work on the ground in the world’s biggest and most dysfunctional cities.
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Charts
Redefining Inequality So It Actually Means Something
Measures that don't account for location fail to capture purchasing power differences.
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Is the World's Most Expensive Housing Market About to Crash?
Hong Kong's home prices are exorbitant but volatile. Will the latest scare lead to a more balanced market, or just tinier homes?
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The BRICS Cities Sprouting Multimillionaires the Fastest
Some of the world’s fastest-growing pockets of wealth are in five cities you may never have heard of.
