Arthur Brooks

Massachusetts

Is income inequality in Boston morally wrong?

Last week, readers of the Boston Globe were treated to yet another article lamenting the fact that Boston, according to an analysis of 2014 Census data by the Brookings Institution, is the U.S. city with the greatest income disparity between the top 5 percent of income earners and the

NewBostonPost

Work is a blessing, not a punishment

In America today, too many people believe that work is drudgery — that only certain kinds of employment are ennobling or provide fulfillment. The notion that "hamburger-flipping" jobs and other kinds of low paying work lack value (popularly expressed during the presidential election of 1988 and reinforced by the