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Aug 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 Policy Studies.
Income Inequality - Inequality.org
Over 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 …
Inequality and Health - Inequality.org
The same association between high economic inequality and poor health can be observed within the United States. “Deaths of despair” — premature deaths from suicide, alcohol abuse, and drug overdoses — are at historic highs, with lower-income Americans particularly hard hit. The opioid crisis has driven the starkest gap.
Racial Economic Inequality - Inequality.org
Racial 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 ...
Inequality and Taxes - Inequality.org
This results in the poorest families paying a larger share of their income on state and local taxes than the rich. According to a 2024 Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report, the poorest 20 percent of Americans face an average effective state and local tax rate of 11.3 percent, while the top 1 percent’s average rate is just 7.2 percent.
Inequality Weekly - Inequality.org
Oct 2, 2024 · Our key finding: Dozens of large and profitable U.S. corporations are actually paying their top executives more than they’re paying in federal income taxes. “Tax avoidance and excessive executive pay aren’t unrelated,” Inequality.org co-editor Sarah Anderson explains in a Boston Globe story about the report.
Report: The Road to Zero Wealth - Inequality.org
Sep 11, 2017 · The nation’s overall median wealth decreased nearly 20% from 1983 to 2013 ($78,000 to $64,000—a period when Black and Latino median wealth went down and White wealth slowly went up. Even earning a middle-class income does not guarantee a family middle-class economic security, according to the report. White households in the middle income ...
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Inequality.org has been tracking inequality-related news and views for nearly two decades. A project of the Institute for Policy Studies since 2011, our site aims to provide information and insights for readers ranging from educators and journalists to activists and policy makers. Our Inequality.org contributors come from the United States and ...
As Global Inequality Rises, So Are the Movements Fighting It
November 26, 2019. This week we as Fight Inequality Alliance have released our first report, The State of the Growing Movement Fighting Inequality. We aimed to begin balancing the plethora of research on inequality — its causes and symptoms, as well as the data crunching and killer stats that others have been doing so well since inequality ...
Poverty Just Jumped — And It Was No Accident - Inequality.org
September 14, 2023. by Lakeisha McVey. After hitting a record low of 7.8 percent in 2021, new data shows the government’s Supplemental Poverty Measure jumped to 12.4 percent last year. That’s a nearly 60 percent increase. And it’s all because politicians allowed proven income support programs to expire. I’m an expert on poverty.