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Yet the most influential claims about inequality rest on selective readings of history and partial measurements of living standards.
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Daniel Waldenstrom, Foreign Affairs, 19 May 2025
With Conservative popularity in the city collapsing as fast as living standards, her many critics in Liverpool believe that Howe’s recommendation was carried out.
—Simon Hughes, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
By spreading the values of unionism and free trade across the world, American workers sought to raise global living standards and forever banish the threat of low-wage competition from abroad.
— Made By History, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
Historically, economists have associated major technological breakthroughs—such as the steam engine and electrification—with productivity growth that, in the long term, raises living standards.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
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Daniel Waldenstrom, Foreign Affairs, 19 May 2025
With Conservative popularity in the city collapsing as fast as living standards, her many critics in Liverpool believe that Howe’s recommendation was carried out.
—Simon Hughes, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
By spreading the values of unionism and free trade across the world, American workers sought to raise global living standards and forever banish the threat of low-wage competition from abroad.
— Made By History, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
Historically, economists have associated major technological breakthroughs—such as the steam engine and electrification—with productivity growth that, in the long term, raises living standards.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
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“Living standard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/living%20standard. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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