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Hello and welcome to EU today. My name is Brett Harris and I am a contemporary European

studies major at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In this episode, I'll be

interviewing Caitlin Alper, a PhD candidate in political science at UNC.

Caitlin's main research focus is economic inequalities in the EU, and she was a 2019 recipient of the Jean-Money Center of Excellence EU Summer Research Award.

In this episode, Caitlin discusses income inequality in Europe and in the U.S.

and considers how inequality impacts government policy during the current pandemic.

Hello everyone, and thank you for tuning in to EU today.

And a huge thank you to our guest speaker, Caitlin Alper.

Welcome.

And so diving right in, one of the facets of your study is sort of income inequality.

So could you maybe just give us a bit of a

primer about that? Maybe what is income inequality? Are there different types? How do you measure it?

Things like that. Yeah, definitely. So sort of broadly speaking, when we're thinking about

inequality, we're really just thinking about sort of the unequal distribution of economic resources.

And we could think about inequality between different demographic groups.

We could think about inequality in wealth.

We could think about inequality in like household income.

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