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INCOME INEQUALITY
There is growing evidence that the United States is at historic levels of income inequality, as measured in the relative differences between the lowest and the highest income earners. This has important implication for union laws, the minimum wage, CEO pay, tax policy, and Obama's promise to strengthen the middle class with good jobs. With the financial crisis, questions associated with taxing the "very rich" because of the hardships suffered by everyone else will become even more significant.
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commissioned by equality think tank Tasc and Irish Congress of Trade Unions (Ictu) to establish the extent of income...
2006 while five per cent of households enjoyed incomes of more than ?134,000, a new report on income inequality has...
of transparency in government. Also, in its social inclusion and equity policies (e.g., gender equity, environmental...
The prime minister can take some comfort from the overall picture on distribution. The ONS data shows that income...
most notably that old canard that the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. For the record, income inequality...
as they have opened up their economies. It is received wisdom that our current era suffers from unprecedented income...
wealth levels should return to pre-recessionary times once the economy recovers * SUB-TREND: Income polarization: the...
is not worried at the moment.' However, he does concede the region has challenges it must confront, including 'income...
Americans are poorer as a result of the crash and wealth creation more difficult except for the rich. Income inequality...
parties said the planned tax cuts would benefit mainly middle and upper-income households and thus contribute to rising...
also thought to display how access to pensions and housing play a key part in making wealth and income inequality even...
been urged not to live too ostentatiously so as to avoid antagonising a public unhappy about sharply rising income...
day, my parents are convinced that the Reagan-Thatcher variety of free-market capitalism, which they believe led to...
increase economic efficiency. The Conservative plan to cut inheritance tax would do the opposite. First, the equality...
the 2007 data on its face value. There is a measurement known as the Gino coefficient. It measures income inequality on...
Claiming that income inequality in the U.S. has ceased growing, Forbes columnists and economists Brian S.
as a factor in school assignments, says Richard Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, which studies...
exceptional circumstances he confronted on taking power, and partly propelled by his own agenda on health-care reform,...
- from long-range nuclear missiles to a blue-water navy. But this rise has come at a price: growing income inequality...
earnings still to come). And Goldman Sachs adviser Brian Griffiths actually said last week that we must 'tolerate'...
The foreclosure crisis may be coming to a middle-class neighborhood near you. As joblessness continues to rise and as a...
Income Inequality Threatens America’s Basic Economic and Political Systems by Bruce Judson on October 29th, 2009 To...
can tell no one is talking much about how to promote that. If that stays the case, and income inequality continues to...
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