Income Inequality - Inequality.org
WEBOver the past five decades, the top 1 percent of American earners have nearly doubled their share of national income, according to figures in the World Inequality Database.Meanwhile, the Census Bureau’s “official” poverty rate for all U.S. families has merely inched up and down. In 2011, the Census Bureau began publishing a “supplemental” poverty measure that is more accurate but ...
Global Inequality - Inequality.org
WEBGlobal Wealth Inequality. According to the UBS Global Wealth Report, in 2023 the world’s richest 1 percent, those with more than $1 million, owned 47.5 percent of all the world’s wealth – equivalent to roughly $214 trillion. Adults with less than $10,000 make up nearly 40 percent of the world’s population, but hold less than 1 percent ...
Wealth Inequality - Inequality.org
WEBAccording to Institute for Policy Studies analysis of Forbes data, the combined wealth of all U.S. billionaires increased by $2.071 trillion (70.3 percent) between March 18, 2020 and October 15, 2021, from approximately $2.947 trillion to $5.019 trillion. Of the more than 700 U.S. billionaires, the richest five (Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark ...
Eight Ways To Reduce Global Inequality
WEBFeb 11, 2015 · Reversing this trend presents a significant challenge, but one where we’ve seen some progress. Below we offer eight ways to move the world forward in reducing global inequality. 1. Stop Illicit Outflows. In developing countries, inadequate resourcing for health, education, sanitation, and investment in the poorest citizens drives extreme ...
WEB2 Authors: Kalena Thomhave is a researcher with the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies. Chuck Collins directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he also co-edits Inequality.org. His most recent book is The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions from Polity Press, and in ...
Gender Economic Inequality - Inequality.org
WEBGender Poverty Gaps. The gender poverty gap has not improved significantly over the past half decade. In 1966, 12.1 percent of women and 8.4 percent of men aged 18-64 lived below the official poverty line. In 2021, 11.7 percent of women in this age group were living in poverty, compared to 9.3 percent of men.
Amazonian Indigenous Leader Sônia Guajajara: ‘In the Flames, …
WEBOctober 16, 2020. by Sônia Guajajara. S ônia Guajajara delivered this speech to accept the 2020 Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award on behalf of the Association of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB). The Association is standing up to powerful corporations, backed by an oppressive government, to protect indigenous rights and lands — all ...
Racial Economic Inequality - Inequality.org
WEBRacial Income Inequality. In 2021, Fortune 500 CEOs, who earned $18.3 million on average, included just four Black and 17 Latino people — just 4 percent of the total. By contrast, these groups made up 43 percent of the U.S. workers who would benefit from a raise in the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025, according to Institute for ...
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The Key to Distributing Wealth More Equitably - Inequality.org
WEBOct 4, 2019 · Simply this: Redistribution alone — via progressive tax rates — will never be enough to build and sustain a more equal society. We also need to focus on how societies predistribute our wealth. For minimum decency. we need a maximum wage. The redistribution impulse rests on the notion that we can …