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The Ferenstein Wire is a syndicated news service. It publishes data-driven news about tech, health, education, and society. Publishing…The Ferenstein Wire is a syndicated news service. It publishes data-driven news about tech, health, education, and society. Media outlets and other publishing partners pay a fee for unlimited and unrestricted rights to repost the daily writing on their own site. ¶ Licensing and sponsorship inquiries can be made to the editor at greg at greg ferenstein dot com.

Greg Ferenstein3 days ago1 min read

One explanation for why poverty is “falling faster than ever” while inequality skyrockets (in 3…

Despite lingering gloom from the economic recession, life is getting much better for the most distressed people all over the world. Since…

Greg Ferenstein14 hrs ago4 min read

A 26-year-old MIT graduate is turning heads over his theory that income inequality is actually…

Wealthy tech founders and the automation of middle-class jobs are often blamed for increasingly concentrations of wealth in the 1%. But, a…

Greg Ferenstein4 days ago3 min read

Face-ternet: 1/3rd of Americans Get News From Facebook

Facebook is reportedly in talks with dozens of the world’s biggest media empires, including the New York Times and Buzzfeed, to host news…

Greg FerensteinMar 242 min read

The Silicon Valley libertarians behind Ted Cruz’s bank account (in 2 charts)

The U.S. Senate’s most outspoken contrarian, Ted Cruz, became the first official 2016 candidate to launch a bid for the White House…

Greg FerensteinMar 232 min read

What Steve Jobs Taught Google’s Tony Fadell About Designing Simple Products

At the TED conference in Vancouver this year, one of the main designers of the iPod and founder of Nest, Tony Fadell, gave a few simple…

Greg FerensteinMar 192 min read

How People Sleep When They’re Not Surrounded by Electronics

Electronics are wreaking havoc on the human sleep cycle. iPhones, iPads, laptops, and electronic lights bombard our eyes with artificial…

Greg FerensteinMar 192 min read

Americans Are Aggressively Pro Government Spying (in 2 graphs)

We’ve known for years that most Americans support the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance apparatus. Poll after poll shows that…

Greg FerensteinMar 172 min read

Here are the top 5 colleges, ranked by graduate income (Harvard isn’t even close)

For decades, top colleges got by on a reputation alone, because there wasn’t good data on how their graduates actually fared in the job…

Greg FerensteinMar 142 min read