Stigmabase | North America

America's Growing Income Inequality - Income inequality then began to climb again in the 1970s. It's a trend that has continued ever since, breaching the 50% threshold in 2015, according to data from the World Wealth and Income Database. This is problematic for a number of reasons. In the first case, extreme inequality can trigger political ...

How Outsourcing Tech Jobs Could Deepen Income Inequality In America -  America's growing income inequality has been a persistent concern of both economists and activists for the better part of a decade. Part of that gap ...

States are on the front lines of fighting inequality - Y., almost immediately took aim at America's growing income inequality by recommending a 70 percent tax rate on income over US $10 million.

America's growing food inequality problem  - Income inequality isn't the only gap the U.S. needs to mind these days; the country is amassing a sad and expensive discrepancy between what its ...

Elite Dating Apps Threaten to Make America's Wealth Gap Worse - In the process, they could be helping to intensify America's growing income inequality , as well as wealth disparities between metropolitan areas and the rest of the country. Dating apps “help you find exactly what you want,” says Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University who has broached ...

Ditching Obamacare May Worsen Income Inequality - Since the 1970s, as America's income gap has widened, one of the most powerful drivers of inequality has been the growing cost of health care.

The only solution to America's income inequality problem  - It is widely recognized that growing inequality is the greatest challenge facing the United States in the years ahead. The gap between the few who ...

The corrosive impact of America's growing wealth gap  - While income inequality has become a buzzword among economists and policy ... America faces some troubling trends with the widening wealth gap, ...

It has been said that there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Well, there's no lying about the growing income inequality in America ... View article...

Socialist Sanders' tax returns show millionaire status - Self-described Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders, the 2020 presidential candidate who has long assailed America's growing income inequality , ...

3 Megatrends in Retirement  - Most of us have read something about America's growing income inequality . As the Center for American Progress has noted, "...although productivity ...

What liberals don't understand about income inequality - Blaming the success of America's 1% for the slow growth of middle- and working-class incomes leads to policies that slow an already slow-growing ...

Study reveals how America's wealthiest — and poorest — spend their money  - The notion of growing income inequality in the US has dominated the Democratic primary, and a new study provides insight into spending patterns of ...

... we faced growing income inequality, stunted economic mobility, and deeply embedded structural racism. And yet my life is proof that the American ... View article...

With imperilled reproductive rights, an escalating climate crisis, growing income inequality, and democratic voting rights and norms under threat, ... View article...

A moderate wealth tax on the richest Americans would provide much ... in revenue is a reflection of growing income inequality in the U.S. The signers ... View article...

... to discuss initiatives to address income inequality in the U.S.. ... they're just another harsh reminder of America's growing wealth gap, ... View article...

Why Inequality Matters and What Can Be Done About It  - As disturbing as the data on the growing inequality in income are, those that describe the other dimensions of America's inequality are even worse: ...

America's richest 1pc will live a decade longer than its poorest  - The richest Americans can expect to live at least a decade longer than the poorest – and that gap, as with income inequality , is growing ever wider.

How Trump presidency is weakening US against China; speeding America's retreat from Asia - Trump may be more of a symptom than a cause of America's problems. A stagnant median income, growing inequality and dwindling social safety net have led to most Americans missing out on the benefits of an open and innovative economy. Some of these structural problems will get worse before they ...