The Great Divergence America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It. By Timothy Noah. Buy this book. Coming Apart But by the ’80s, the trends for lower-wage workers had been ...

The answer is most definitely a yes but it doesn’t just apply to Australians, and the extent of the price disparity is larger than I had thought. This turned into a bigger article than I had expected ...

He claims that the top 1% have faced the largest losses in income over the Great Recession, which should result in declines in inequality. In contrast, recently updated data and analysis by ...

As these opposing views come to a head, a new video based on Mother Jones’ well-known income inequality charts has been making the rounds. Even if you’ve already seen the originals ...

A median of 60% across 36 countries say that rich people having too much political influence leads to economic inequality a great deal in their country. Majorities hold this opinion in 31 nations and ...

But I do, and I’m not alone in the feeling that the disparity of wealth – still ... and their champions in Congress continue to amass great wealth as the rest of the nation bleeds.

Technical debates about the nature and scale of income inequality are important, but they should not obscure what matters most in the story of the US economy. The mitigating effects of taxes and ...

I believe most citizens are not comfortable with the great disparities of wealth in our country and feel that we should have a large middle class to prevent poverty and emphasize raising all ...

Thomas Piketty’s Nature, Culture, and Inequality is a little book that addresses an issue of great significance: is the social inequality we observe every day natural? Drawing on historical ...

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