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2024年8月29日 · 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 …
Facts - Inequality.org
The Facts that Define Our Grand Divides. Inequality and Covid-19. Income Inequality. Wealth Inequality. Racial Economic Inequality. Global Inequality. Gender Economic Inequality. Inequality and Health. Inequality and Taxes.
Global Inequality - Inequality.org
Global 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 ...
Research & Commentary - Inequality.org
2024年9月3日 · Tax Cuts for the Rich Create Debt, Division, and Despair — Not Jobs. October 8, 2024. by Indivar Dutta-Gupta. Growing inequality undermines our democracy and turns Americans against each other. A fairer tax system could bring us …
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 ...
Gender Economic Inequality - Inequality.org
Gender 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.
The Year in Inequality in 10 Charts
2021年12月15日 · The January to November period saw the creation of nearly 6 million new jobs and a decline in the unemployment rate from 6.3 percent to 4.2 percent. But these improvements conceal persistent racial inequalities. As of October 2021, the unemployment rate was 7.9 percent among Black workers and 4.0 percent among whites, a wider gap than at the ...
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 ...