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In recent decades, income inequality in the United States has become a very contentious policy debate. Critics argue that tax cuts for the wealthy, especially those enacted in the 1980s and sustained over time, have worsened the income gap.

“Having the confidence to engage with research has allowed me to make it this far and put my skills to use for the people of Wyoming.”

Prof. Rebecca Wolfe highlights the dangers of integrating USAID into the State Department for 'The Center Square'

“I think that UChicago fostered the ability to think creatively for myself,” Butler says, “to take facts, information, have a level of discernment to think through problems and not necessarily go with what’s popular and what the masses may say."

“I definitely feel that my job scratches that itch of trying to make our community—our society—better.”

In the history of authoritarian regimes, purges have been a common tool rulers use to maintain control by removing perceived threats. One of the most notorious episodes of purges took place during Joseph Stalin’s Great Terror of 1937-38.