Income Distribution

Visualizing The Income Gap

Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Income Distribution, Income Gap, Poverty, Millionaires, Occupy Wall Street, American Wealth Vanishes, Visualizing Economics, Business News, Wealth Gap, Global Wealth, Business News

One of the focal points of the protests raging in Zuccotti Park and around the world is the sizable gap between the rich and everyone else. Yet as the...

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We Have A Growth Crisis: Simon Johnson

Bloomberg News | Simon Johnson | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Income Distribution, Unemployment, Wealth, Income Inequality, Economic Crisis, Business News, Jobs, Financial Crisis, Simon Johnson, Economic Growth, Gross Domestic Product, Business News

The U.S.’s fiscal problem is not that the market questions the country’s ability to pay its debts. The willingness to pay was clearly proved by th...

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Growing Economic Inequality the Root Cause of Economic Stagnation

Robert Creamer | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Economic Stagnation, Income Distribution, Debt Ceiling, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Economic Inequaltiy, Budget Debate, Job Creation, Business News

Growing economic inequality as we have had in America for the past three decades directly impacts million of lives and destroys millions of dreams. It's not just about economic policy. It's about right and wrong.

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Small, Median and Obscenely Large: There's Nothing Average About the Middle Class

Tony Phillips | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Income Distribution, Median Income, U.S. Economy, Middle Class, Economic Crisis, U.S. Income Distribution, Poverty, Poverty U.S., U.S. Poverty, American Middle Class, American Poverty, U.S. Income Inequality, Poverty in America, Politics News

SAN DIEGO -- I live with my wife and a 13-year-old and while each of us is different, we do all agree on some fundamental issues. Here are three thing...

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Economic Collapse Was Foreseen

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Income Distribution, Marketism, Fcic Report, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Financial Reform, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Fcic, Financial Regulation, Business News

The Republican minority on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission asserts that the Commission Report's conclusion that the crisis was "avoidable" is mistaken.

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CLASS WARFARE

Larry Beinhart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Income Distribution, Social Mobility, Education, Class Warfare, Family Income, Class War, Tax Cuts, Union Busting, Third World America, Unions, Progressive Tax Structure, Politics News

We're in a class war. It's the corporations and the very wealthiest against all the rest of us. We're losing. In 1962 the wealthiest 1% of American h...

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The Bush Tax Cuts and the Republican Cult of Affirmative Action

David Fiderer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Third World America. Mitch Mcconnell, Taxes, Heritage Foundation, Social Security, Economics, Bush, Third World America, Affirmative Action, Enron, Arthur Laffer, Capitalism, Bernie Madoff, Free Enterprise, Arianna Huffington, Income Distribution, American Enterprise Institute, Finance, Tax Cuts, Economists, Financial Crisis, Holtz-Eakin, Republican Party, Accounting, Estates, Government Spending, Financial Reform, Poor, Bush Tax Cuts, Rich, National Deficit, Business News, Federal Deficit, Income Gap, Income Inequality, Middle Class, Democrats, Barack Obama, Medicare, Republicans, Poverty, Business News

Capitalists believe in rewarding success and punishing failure. Well, we have ten years of performance data on the Bush tax cuts, and they failed by every possible criterion.

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How American Income Inequality Hit Levels Not Seen Since The Depression

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Income Distribution, Income Gap, Wealthy, Middle Class Wages, Income Inequality, Third World America, Great Recession, Raghuram Rajan, Emmanuel Saez, Banks, Wage Stagnation, Paul Krugman, American International Group, Great Depression, Business News

WASHINGTON (Reuters, By Emily Kaiser) - In 2007, when the world was on the brink of financial crisis, U.S. income inequality hit its highest mark sin...

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Why the Right and the Left Won't Talk Seriously About Inequality

Frank Koller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Income Distribution, Politics, Society, Wealth, Fairness, Inequality, Voting, Politics News

Both political parties have a short-term interest in simply avoiding making too much of the fact that America is becoming a more and more unequal society. Does that sound like good leadership to you?

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American Kleptocracy: How Fears of Socialism and Fascism Hide Naked Theft

William J. Astore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Income Distribution, Kleptocracy, US-Inequality, America Inequality, US Socialism, American Radicalism, Politics News

If we were to take an honest look at America's "losers" and "winners," we'd have to admit there weren't signs of onrushing socialism or fascism, but of staggeringly self-aggrandizing greed and theft right in the here and now.

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Obama's Health Care Is 'The Biggest Attack' On Wealth Inequality In 20 Years: NYT

nytimes.com | David Leonhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Income Distribution, Health Care Bill, Wealth Inequality, Poverty, Health Care and Income, Middle Class Income, Income Inequality, Health Care Costs, Hcr, Medicare, Health Care Bills, Wealth Distribution, Business News

For all the political and economic uncertainties about health reform, at least one thing seems clear: The bill that President Obama signed on Tuesday ...

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Income Inequality: Top 400 U.S. Earners See Income Rise 476% In Last 15 Years

epi.org | Lawrence Mishel | Posted 05.25.2011

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The 400 American households with the highest incomes also have enjoyed a much faster pace of income growth than the vast majority. And, because tax r...

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GOOD And Column Five Media Map Distribution Of Income By Religious Belief

GOOD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Judaism, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Mormonism, Income, Evangelicals, Income Distribution, Religion, Hinduism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Wealth, Christianity, Black Churches, Mainline Churches, Buddhism, Income by Religion, Wealth Religion, Income Religion, Religion Income, Income Religion Huffington Post, Distribution of Income by Religious Belief, Major Religious Groups in the World, US Income Distribution, Black Income Distribution, Income by Religious Beliefs, Religion News

This transparency takes a look at the income levels of America's major religious groups, as compared to the average U.S. income distribution. ...

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Gap Between LA's Rich And Poor Widening

LA Daily | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Income Distribution, Income Disparity, Los Angeles Rich and Poor, Los Angeles News

Los Angeles County. Home of The Hills, Rodeo Drive, and arguably the most exotic and high-end cars in the world. California has more billionaires than...

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Reducing America's Economic Polarization Will Lead to Political Comity

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Income Distribution, Political Polaraization, CEO Pay, Minimum Wage, Bi-Partisanship, Economic Policy, Economic Polarization, Polarization of Congress, Politics News

If you want to do something about the political polarization of Congress, you have to deal with the underlying cause. You have to reduce the growing level of income inequality in America

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"Black Tuesday" and "Happy Days Are Here Again" at 80

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Income Distribution, Labor Unions, Black Tuesday, Tax Rates, Happy Days Are Here Again, 1929 Stock Market Crash, Socialism, Capitalism, Free-Market Economics, Barack Obama, Recession, Great Depression, Financial Crisis, Wall Street Crisis Mccain, Business News

In what must rank as one of the most ironic coincidences in history, "Happy Days Are Here Again" was recorded on the day that was to be called "Black Tuesday" and become synonymous with the with the onset of the Great Depression.

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An Estate Tax Victory By Any Other Name

Chuck Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Warren Buffett, Anti-Tax, Estate Tax, Income Distribution, Wealth, Death Tax, Bloomberg, Chamber of Commerce, Politics News

Sometimes you can't declare victory until the other side concedes defeat. That's what happened Monday in the decade-long struggle over the future of the estate tax, our nation's only levy on inherited wealth.

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Income Inequality Widens, Poor Take Big Hit During Recession

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Income Distribution, Census, Income Gap, Income Inequality, Economy, Recession, Business News

WASHINGTON — The recession has hit middle-income and poor families hardest, widening the economic gap between the richest and poorest Americans ...

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