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UC Berkeley economists recently launched Realtime Inequality, a web tool to track and visualize income and wealth inequality in the United States within hours of the data’s release.
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The “Berkeley Conversations: COVID-19” series hosted a livestream Friday to discuss the economic impact of and human solutions to the coronavirus pandemic, with some of the nation’s leading economists and policy experts.
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Two UC Berkeley professors played key roles in shaping parts of the financial policies of presidential candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
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This year’s recipients — Courtney Dressing, Shirshendu Ganguly, Moritz Hardt, Sergey Levine, Priya Moorjani, Philipp Strack and Gabriel Zucman — are among 126 scholars from 57 universities in the United States and Canada. The recipients will receive $70,000 over the course of two years toward a research project.
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Teaching, researching and producing blueprints for tax policy that can potentially affect the entire nation — that is the daily life of two UC Berkeley professors who are currently working with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, to address the issue of wealth disparity in the United States.
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