Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigMar 7, 2016
A staggering Guardian investigation reveals how, far from being “the most indulged young people in the history of the world," Westerners born in the 1980s and mid-1990s have been betrayed by previous generations that have left them in debt, jobless and locked out of property markets. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 23, 2015
An MIT graduate has a new theory about the root cause of inequality; more Mexican immigrants have gone back to their native country since the 2008 economic crash than have moved to the U.S.; and a professor of linguistics explains why English is an extremely weird language. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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Roisin Davis / TruthdigAug 28, 2015
In the 10 years since Hurricane Katrina, many of New Orleans' low-income black residents have been displaced, with gentrification entailing a dramatic transformation of the city's class structure and cultural identity. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Kasia Anderson / TruthdigJun 24, 2015
While we're all waiting for the Supreme Court to make some historic calls about key issues like gay marriage, here's another big one to keep in focus: racial discrimination in housing. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Roisin Davis / TruthdigJun 24, 2015
Racial wealth inequality has widened due to targeting of black Americans by pre-2008 subprime mortgage lending, a report by the American Civil Liberties Union finds. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMar 15, 2015
A short film takes us into the lives of former Japanese “salarymen” and others who, because they lost work, have taken refuge in the cramped, bleak cubicles that honeycomb their society’s Internet cafes. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigJan 29, 2015
The newest thing in housing looks like a great deal for would-be home buyers, but a closer look reveals a thorny trap. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigOct 27, 2014
Seamus Farrell is among the tens of thousands of young people from Ireland who came of age in the wake of the global financial crisis and left when they were unable to find work at home. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJan 23, 2014
A looming social crisis in the Irish capital of Dublin has emerged out of a severe shortage of cheap rents, increased demand for housing and a dramatic slowdown in construction. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
David Sirota / TruthdigNov 23, 2013
As the Denver Post previously reported, between 1990 and 2000, more than a third of all homes built in America were built in the so-called Wildland-Urban Interface -- aka the fire red zones. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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