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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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New Income Inequality Data: Surprising and Frightening by Bruce Judson on September 29th, 2009 The newest economic...
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Nev., were among the areas showing the least income differences between rich and poor. It's unclear whether income...
force. The results are decidedly contrarian. The study showed strong evidence of a correlation between union membership...
Americans and everyone else.' Yes, the highest incomes do tend to drop sharply during market downturns, thus reducing...
Economic Inequality: The Wall Street Journal is Just Wrong by Bruce Judson on September 14th, 2009 For anyone with even...
integrate complex realities, such as crime, the environment and the efficiency of the health system, as well as income...
The judge waves you into his chambers in the State Supreme Court building in Brooklyn, past the caveat taped to his...
By Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Delinquency and foreclosure rates for U.S. mortgages continued to...
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Discussion base don several articles of the state of the middle class and current policy efforts.
Americans are angry at Wall Street, and rightly so. First the financial industry plunged us into economic crisis, then...
Last updated: 7:35 pm July 11, 2009 Posted: 7:32 pm July 11, 2009 America's middle class is disappearing.
of most social, and by implication, environmental problems. A maximum as well as a minimum wage would tackle income...
Energy trader and his team seek a $100 million annual bonus from Citibank.
The troubled banking giant, which to many symbolizes the troubles in the nation’s financial industry, intends to raise...
Have you or someone you know considered seeking help from the government, a nonprofit group, a synagogue, a church, a...
Nine of the financial firms that were among the largest recipients of federal bailout money paid about 5,000 of their...
economist at the World Bank in Beijing, suggests that the extra saving may owe as much to greater income inequality as...
bottom 90 percent. It may never happen if a major recession hits first, Mr. Jencks concludes. To reduce income...
to balance the demand-supply equation.' Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz of Harvard explain that the culprit behind...
further cautioned that the current crisis has caused many to see free trade and open markets as worsening income...
revenue and jobs. He says the trend might also force Mexico to create jobs at home and tackle income inequality,...
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