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Mostly Economics Podcast #27: Why America's Wage Gap Keeps Growing with Kim Weeden

Mostly Economics Podcast #27: Why America's Wage Gap Keeps Growing with Kim Weeden

Update: 2025-10-30
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This week Dean speaks to Kim Weeden, Professor of Sociology at Cornell University and Director of the Center for the Study of Inequality, about why America's wage gap keeps growing. While protections for minimum wage workers have weakened over the past 40 years, the rules that protect high earners have only gotten stronger.

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Mostly Economics Podcast #27: Why America's Wage Gap Keeps Growing with Kim Weeden

Mostly Economics Podcast #27: Why America's Wage Gap Keeps Growing with Kim Weeden