U.S. Wage Disparity Took Another Turn for the Worse Last Year

Top wage earners last year made 5.05 times what their lowest-income counterparts took home, the widest gap in data going back to 1979, according ...

Wage Disparity Took Another Turn for the Worse Last Year

The picture on income inequality in America just got a little bleaker. Top wage earners last year made 5.05 times what their lowest-income ...

U.S. wage disparity took another turn for the worse last year

Workers load tobacco stakes onto a tractor at a burley tobacco field in Simpsonville, Ky., on Aug. 24, 2016. Bloomberg photo by Luke Sharrett. Luke Sharrett.

U.S. Wage Disparity Took Another Turn for the Worse Last Year ...

(1/26/2017 8:38 AM, Sho Chandra and Jordan Yadoo) The picture on income inequality in America just got a little bleaker. Top wage earners last year made ...

Inequality in annual earnings worsens in 2021: Top 1% of earners ...

The latest earnings data from the Social Security Administration (SSA) allow us to analyze wage trends for the top 1% and other very high ...

Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts | Economic Policy Institute

Our country has suffered from rising income inequality and chronically slow growth in the living standards of low- and moderate-income Americans.

Gender pay gap in U.S. hasn't changed much in two decades

The gender gap in pay has remained relatively stable in the United States over the past 20 years or so. In 2022, women earned an average of ...

U.S. income and wealth inequality are no longer increasing, but a ...

On average, incomes grew by 30 percent over this 12-year period. The lowest decile of income saw the largest gains, and the top decile saw the ...

In 25 Years, the Pay Gap Has Shrunk by Just 8 Cents

Why does the gender wage gap still exist? And what can be done to close it? We unpack the issue. Share ...

Income Inequality

Income Inequality · Income disparities are now so pronounced that America's richest 1 percent of households averaged 139 times as much income as the bottom 20 ...

1. Trends in income and wealth inequality - Pew Research Center

Barely 10 years past the end of the Great Recession in 2009, the U.S. economy is doing well on several fronts.

Gap between rich and poor has increased more quickly in the US ...

WEALTH DIVIDE - Wealth inequality in the United States has increased more quickly than in Europe in the last 50 years, according to a new ...

Black wealth is increasing, but so is the racial wealth gap

According to the latest data from the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances, the nation's racial wealth gap increased during the COVID- ...

Nine Charts about Wealth Inequality in America - Urban Institute

Wealth inequality is higher in the United States than in almost any other developed country and has risen for much of the past 60 years.

Equal Pay Day 2019: progress on the wage gap has stalled | Vox

America has stalled on equal pay ... Things got worse last year, not better. And women of color face the biggest gap.

Income inequality in America is at its highest level in more than 50 ...

Income inequality in the U.S. is at its highest level in more than 50 years, according to new Census data. The gap between rich and poor is ...

America's Women and the Wage Gap

Across all workers in the United States in 2023, women were typically paid just 75 cents for every dollar paid to.

The Simple Truth About the Gender Pay Gap - AAUW

Over half a century after pay discrimination became illegal in the United States, a persistent pay gap between men and women continues to hurt our nation's ...

A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality

The years from the end of World War II into the 1970s were ones of substantial economic growth and broadly shared prosperity. Incomes grew ...

Wage gap between blacks and whites is worst in nearly 40 years

The wage gap between blacks and whites is the worst it's been in nearly four decades, according to a new report from the Economic Policy ...