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 …
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 ...
Inequality.org
WEBAug 29, 2024 · is your online portal to data, analysis, and commentary on income and wealth inequality. You'll find on these pages information and insights that can help you better understand our deeply unequal world — and how we can work to change it. Inequality.org comes to you as a project of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for …
WEBBILLIONAIRE PANDEMIC WEALTH GAINS OF 55%, OR $1.6 TRILLION, COME AMID THREE DECADES OF RAPID WEALTH GROWTH April 15, 2021 Whether measured over 13 months or 31 years, the growth of U.S. billionaire wealth is both
Rethinking America’s Social Safety Net - Inequality.org
WEBMar 6, 2017 · A “social safety net,” properly conceived, is the web of institutions and services that benefit all members of a given society while building bonds of community and cross-cultural connection. In this broader understanding, the safety net includes public education, public parks, public transportation and other services and amenities ...
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.
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 ...
Inequality and Health - Inequality.org
WEBThe racial disparities in Covid-related health indicators have contributed to a steeper decline in the U.S. life expectancy for people of color, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics and the CDC. Between 2019 and 2021, American Indians and Alaska natives experienced the biggest drop, with life expectancy at birth plunging by more than …
Who Owns Almost All America’s Land? - Inequality.org
WEBWhite Americans, by comparison, own more than 98 percent of U.S. land amounting to 856 million acres with a total worth of over $1 trillion. CNN founder Ted Turner alone owns over 2 million acres of land according to Forbes magazine. In other words, one person owns nearly a quarter of what all black Americans combined own in rural land.
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 use steeply graduated tax rates to …