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An ASU Center for the Future of Equality

The Difference Engine

Our approach

We are an ASU-wide center that pairs interdisciplinary entrepreneurship with the enthusiasm of ASU students and thought leadership of ASU faculty and staff to fix our nation’s greatest inequalities.

Learn about us

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We are a community

Open to all ASU students, faculty, staff and alumni, as well as anyone else interested in our work.

that makes things

We create actual products from iPhone apps to an index that measures inequality.
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to help people

Conquer social, political and economic inequality. Learn more about our transdisciplinary approach to problem-solving.

defeat injustice.

The U.S. is divided - and we believe fighting for a new future of equality can bring us together as a country.
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Inequality is rising Here is how we turn the tide: