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How economic anxiety affects everyone differently but touches everyone

I feel guilty about my stable job when my friends are struggling with gig work but I also know I am one layoff away from joining them and this makes me feel both privileged and precarious.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Contemporary economic instability creates gradations of vulnerability that complicate traditional categories of advantage and disadvantage.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Inequality — the data and the debate?”

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