“How does a hardworking sixty-four-year-old-woman end up without a house or a permanent place to stay, relying on unpredictable low-wage work to survive? Living in a mile-high alpine wilderness, with intermittent snow and maybe mountain lions in a tiny trailer, scrubbing toilets at the mercy of employers who, on a whim, could cut her hours or even fire her? What does the future look like for someone like that?” WorkPovertyCapitalismNomadland Book:Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century Source: Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
“The most widely accepted measure for calculating income inequality is a century-old formula called the Gini coefficient. It's a gold standard for economists around the globe, along with the World bank, the CIA, and the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. What it reveals is startling. Today the United States has the most unequal society of all developed nations. America’s level of inequality is comparable to that of Russia, China, Argentina, and the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo.” Income InequalityEconomic Inequality Book:Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century Source: Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century