The Widening Economic Divide of 2022

Expiration of Pandemic Relief Led to Record Increases in Poverty ...

In 2022, economic security programs lowered the number of people in poverty by 48 percent, from 78 million to 41 million. (As noted, the ...

How the racial wealth gap has evolved—and why it persists

The economists estimate that the average annual income growth rate for Black Americans was larger than that of White Americans from 1870 to ...

World Cities Report 2022: Envisaging the Future of Cities - UN-Habitat

High inflation and unemployment, slow economic growth, looming recession ... divide in Toronto ...

Widening gaps? Socio-spatial inequality in the “very” European city ...

However, like other European cities, the financial crisis has impacted Vienna. Rising unemployment, income inequality, and a spatially uneven upgrading of the ...

California Divide - CalMatters

California's gap between rich and poor is among the largest in the country, and it is widening. We explore how income inequality is reverberating across the ...

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)

August 2024 Trade Gap is $70.4 Billion. October 8, 2024. The U.S. goods and services trade deficit decreased from $78.9 billion in July (revised) to $70.4 ...

Kenya: extreme inequality in numbers | Oxfam International

While this minority of super-rich Kenyans are accumulating wealth and income, the fruits of economic growth are failing to trickle down to the poorest. The rich ...

Income Inequality Definition: Examples and How It's Measured

According to a study of incomes for full-time workers by the Institute for Women's Policy Research, in 2022 women of all races and ethnicities were paid an ...

Racial Differences in Economic Security: The Racial Wealth Gap

September 15, 2022. By: Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy Benjamin Harris and Economist Sydney Schreiner Wertz ... “Inequality and Economic ...

Income and wealth inequality explained in 5 charts - IFS

... income growth right across the income distribution. Read the full report. Trends in income and wealth inequalities. Report | 9 November 2022 ...

Academic inequality grows amid recovery from pandemic learning loss

But because districts serving lots of students in poverty were further behind to begin with, gaps with higher-income districts grew even when ...

Opportunity Insights | Expanding Economic Opportunity Using Big ...

Our mission is to identify barriers to economic opportunity and develop scalable solutions that will empower people throughout the United States to rise out ...

Realtime Inequality

Controlling for price inflation, average national income per adult in the United States increased by 7.6% in 2021, and average income for the ...

Inequality rising since 2000s, top one per cent in India holds 40 per ...

The paper titled “Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922-2023: The Rise of the Billionaire Raj” stated that between 2014-15 and 2022-23, ...

Income and wealth inequality - Australian Bureau of Statistics

For households in 2019-20, the Gini coefficient for equivalised disposable income was 0.324, relatively steady from 2017-18 (0.328), and slightly higher than ...

Economic Renaissance or Fleeting Recovery? Left-Behind Counties ...

By 2022, that gap had grown to $20,000, with the average median household income in left-behind counties reaching $55,200. Rural left-behind ...

The GAP | National Low Income Housing Coalition

The U.S. has a shortage of more than 7.3 million rental homes affordable and available to extremely low income renter households. Find out more.

Greater Wealth, Greater Uncertainty: Changes in Racial Inequality in ...

Figure 2. Wealth Gaps Persisted and Widened Slightly in 2022, Despite Faster Growth in Wealth for Black and Hispanic Families. (Top Panel) ...

New data shows wealth gap widening – Poverty and Inequality

“Without major reform to housing, superannuation tax breaks and income support, the divide between those with the most and those with the least ...

Income inequality in the United States - Wikipedia

The top 1% share of market income rose from 9.6% in 1979 to a peak of 20.7% in 2007, before falling to 17.5% by 2016. After taxes and transfers, these figures ...