- 1. Trends in income and wealth inequality🔍
- 'An economic divide that is widening'🔍
- Widening of the wealth gap🔍
- Income Inequality🔍
- Geographic Inequality on the Rise in the U.S.🔍
- Inequality – Bridging the Divide🔍
- The Roots of the Widening Racial Wealth Gap🔍
- U.S. Wealth Gaps Remain Despite Widespread Gains🔍
An economic divide that is widening
1. Trends in income and wealth inequality - Pew Research Center
From 2015 to 2018, the median U.S. household income increased from $70,200 to $74,600, at an annual average rate of 2.1%. This is substantially ...
'An economic divide that is widening': Almost a third of Americans ...
'An economic divide that is widening': Almost a third of Americans earning $150,000 a year or more say they're living paycheck to paycheck and ...
'An economic divide that is widening': Almost a third of Americans ...
An economic divide that is widening': Almost a third of Americans earning $150,000 a year or more say they're living paycheck to paycheck and many rely on ...
Widening of the wealth gap: the rise of billionaires
An alarming statistic released by the House of Commons estimates that by 2030, the richest 1% will possess two-thirds of all global wealth.
One factor in the widening income divide is the decline of U.S. labor unions. The share of the workforce represented by a union has declined to just 10.1 ...
Geographic Inequality on the Rise in the U.S.
Geographic income inequality has risen more than 40% between 1980 and 2021. We measure geographic inequality as the variation in average income ...
Inequality – Bridging the Divide - the United Nations
Income inequality between countries has improved, yet income inequality within countries has become worse. Today, 71 percent of the world's population live in ...
The Roots of the Widening Racial Wealth Gap - The Heller School
We started our analysis with an overriding question: Why has economic inequality become so entrenched in our post-Civil Rights era of supposed legal equality?
U.S. Wealth Gaps Remain Despite Widespread Gains | St. Louis Fed
The Hispanic-white gap expanded to $226,000—up $48,000 from 2019. Asian Families' Wealth. Asian families' median wealth was $553,000 in 2022. As ...
Rising inequality: A major issue of our time - Brookings Institution
Over the past four decades, there has been a broad trend of rising income inequality across countries. Income inequality has risen in most ...
The Widening Gap of Economic Inequality - Broadleaf Books Blog
But the accompanying inequality we have created does not always coincide with economic advancement. American economist Heather Boushey says, “We ...
Introduction to Inequality - International Monetary Fund (IMF)
During the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries, global inequality increased dramatically, reflecting widening disparities between countries' per ...
A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality
Beginning in the 1970s, economic growth slowed and the income gap widened. Income growth for households in the middle and lower parts of the ...
Widening inequalities - Knowledge for policy - European Union
The absolute number of people living in extreme poverty has been declining. But the gap between the wealthiest and poorest of the population is widening.
Nine Charts about Wealth Inequality in America - Urban Institute
The only other time that wealth inequality had decreased since 1963 was between 1989 and 1995, when the wealthiest families' wealth decreased ...
Wealth gap widens as pandemic deepens economic inequality
Governments have become significantly poorer over the past 40 years as the private sector has acquired an ever-larger share of total wealth – a ...
Gap between rich and poor has increased more quickly in the US ...
Dr Martínez-Toledano explained: “Less equal societies have less stable economies. High levels of economic inequality can lead to economic and ...
The Widening Economic Divide of 2022 - YouTube
The combination of inflationary pressures and the after-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is creating widening economic disparity for ...
You Decide: How Deep is Our Economic Divide? - NC State CALS
It can refer to several aspects in our economy, such as the economic differences between urban and rural areas, the widening income and ...
How to Fix Economic Inequality?
Now at a time of acute health and economic crisis, widening divisions are raising moral, social, economic, and political challenges. Many experts argue that ...