Forbesadded this to Technology · 16hAndrew Puzder Don’t Believe the Hype: Working Families Continue To Struggle In A Slowing EconomyForbes - Christian WellerThe political spin machine is working overtime to deny what the economic data have been clearly pointing to since the start of the year – a slowing U.S. economy. To wit, an op-ed in the Washington Post
The Staradded this to Politics · 5hCanadian Politics Income-gap figures don’t speak to deepening poverty | The Starthestar.com - Heather Scoffield To hear some academics tell it, Canada does not have a growing problem of income inequality. The income gap between the richest of us and the rest of …
Quartz · 13hStudents Income-share agreements: making student debt the next asset classQuartz - Michael J. CorenOne person’s tuition is another’s investment. With US students mired in over $1.3 trillion of student debt, income-share agreements (ISA) are looking like a growth business. These contracts cover students’
The Wall Street Journal. · 1dInflation Americans Are Richer Than We ThinkThe Wall Street Journal. - Phil GrammOur flawed measures of inflation understate wealth and improvements in consumer well-being. What’s the best way to measure economic well-being in a country as large and diverse as America? One crucial
Poverty The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty in the Unitedcato.org - PDF (96.18 KB) There are reasons to be simultaneously concerned and skeptical about recent reports of high and rising rates of extreme poverty in the United States. …
NNHadded this to AMERICAN HISTORY · 3dAfrican-American News The racial wealth gap in the US is affecting its citizens and its economy – this is howweforum.org - Sean Fleming The US has spent the past century expanding its economic power. As it has grown, so too has the wealth of American families. But not everyone has …
NNational Review · 3dConservative View How the Government Creates Wealth InequalityNational Review - Chris Edwards Politicians complain loudly about this problem, but their own policies are generating it. There are economic storm clouds on the horizon, but for now …
NPRadded this to Business · 3dNPR Business Roundtable Issues Statement On The Need To Help Deal With Income InequalityNPRA group of 181 CEOs have issued a statement proclaiming the need to help deal with income inequality and working conditions. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with New York Times reporter David Gelles. The
Business Insider · 3dWealth We figured out when millionaires will be considered middle class in the United StatesBusiness Insider - Andy KierszWhile building a nest egg of a million dollars remains a pretty steep goal for many Americans, it's possible that within a century, being a millionaire could be a common part of the American middle class
The Atlantic · 3dYale Law School Meritocracy Harms EveryoneThe Atlantic - Daniel MarkovitsMeritocracy prizes achievement above all else, making everyone—even the rich—miserable. Maybe there’s a way out. In the summer of 1987, I graduated from a public high school in Austin, Texas, and headed
CEOs Episode 697 | Trump Furious w/Fox News | CEO's Worried About Income Inequality? | GOP v 1619 Projectspreaker.com - The Benjamin Dixon Show Donald Trump is Furious with Fox News because they gave him less-than-perfect coverage. No one seems to care about this totalitarian behavior because …
Poverty 'It's okay to be poor': Why fighting poverty remains challenging in Indonesiaphys.org - Wasisto Raharjo Jati Poverty remains an ingrained problem in Indonesia despite the country's success in cutting its poverty rate to a single-digit level for the first …
Pre-school Reinforcing preschool subsidies for middle-income families from 2020theonlinecitizen.com - Nadia Morhakim The government will reinforce preschool subsidies including for middle income families in order to mollify concerns over the cost of preschool …
San Francisco Bay Area The Shortlist: Wealth inequality in the US: A path forwardmckinsey.com - www.mckinsey.com Income inequality is hardly new, though it has reemerged as a social and political flash point in recent years, signaling growing public discontent. …
Vox · 6dPlay buttonMinimum Wage The $15 minimum wage bill has all but died in the SenateVox - Alexia Fernández CampbellIt’s official: The Senate has no plans to raise the federal minimum wage anytime soon. A spokesperson for Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and told
Economics It Looks Like We're Heading For a Recession: Which Would Make Republicans' Favorite Economic Policies 0 FOR 4commondreams.org - www.commondreams.org The three biggest economic dislocations in US history were preceded by what has become the Republican’s go-to economic policy: deregulation, tax cuts …
Taxes You paid taxes. These corporations didn’t.publicintegrity.org Taxpayers are scrambling to make last-minute payments due to the Internal Revenue Service in just four days, but many of the country’s largest …
CNBC · 6dUniversal Basic Income Elon Musk and Andrew Yang support Universal Basic Income — here's what it could mean for AmericansCNBC Imagine a sum of cash deposited in your bank account every month, for doing absolutely nothing. That's the gist of universal basic income, or UBI. …
Voxadded this to All Stories · August 15U.S. Politics You have a better chance of achieving “the American dream” in Canada than in AmericaVox - Ezra KleinRaj Chetty is a Harvard economist who has been called “the most influential economist alive today.” He’s considered by his peers to be a shoo-in for the Nobel Prize. He’s transforming how economics is
kkim kilpatrickadded this to Demographics · August 15CEOs CEOs are paid 278 times more than the average U.S. workerMarketWatch - By Andrew Keshner CEO pay has increased 1,008% between 1978 and 2018, while typical worker pay has edged up 12%. That’s according to analysis from the left-leaning …
NBC Newsadded this to Politics · August 15Joaquín Castro Julián Castro wants to tax heirs, provide child credits to tackle wealth inequalityNBC News - Suzanne Gamboa"Families working hard to make ends meet shouldn’t pay more in taxes than the wealthiest earners," Castro stated. Presidential candidate Julián Castro proposed on Thursday taxing inheritances of $2 million
Bernie Sanders WATCH: Bernie Sanders Was Asked About Income Inequality Despite His Claim ‘Not One Reporter’ Ever Askedmediaite.com - Tommy Christopher Independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders defended his media criticism, in part, by claiming that “not one …
MarketWatch · August 14trump news update Opinion: Trump has turned the government against the middle classMarketWatch - By Sam Berger Markets are shaped by choices. Not just the choices of sellers and buyers, but the choices of political leaders too, who shape the rules that govern …
USA TODAY · August 14Trends Overlooked on economy? Rising paychecks for blue-collar workers are shrinking the wage gapUSA TODAY - Gad LevanonMonthly reports on the number of new jobs and the unemployment rate can drown out important trends like these two: After four decades of worsening, wage inequality has started shrinking. And in a twist,
Liberal View The Federal Reserve Board’s Recent Figures on the Outrageous Unequal Distribution of Wealthcounterpunch.org - Rick Baum Photograph Source: AgnosticPreachersKid – CC BY-SA 3.0Recent figures released by the Federal Reserve Board once again verify the shameful growing …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoPopulation Poverty | Dataworldbank.org - data.worldbank.org Annualized average growth rate in per capita real survey mean consumption or income, bottom 40% of population (%) Annualized average growth rate in …
Wealth The economic impact of closing the racial wealth gapmckinsey.com - www.mckinsey.com The United States has spent the past century expanding its economic power, and it shows in American families’ wealth. Despite income stagnation …
CNBC · August 12Saudi Aramco Saudi Aramco's first-half net income falls 12% to $47 billionCNBC - Reuters with CNBC.com Saudi Aramco, the world's top oil producer, reported first-half net income of $46.9 billion on Monday, down from $53.02 billion a year earlier. By …
Livemintadded this to OPINION · August 11Poverty India’s economic mobility and its impact on inequalitylivemint.com - Punarjit Roychowdhury Data does not back the conventional wisdom that marginalized groups are catching up There has been a phenomenal rise in economic inequality in India, …
UNHRC MTUC: Consider local factors in UN poverty studymalaymail.com - Malay Mail KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 11 — The United Nations (UN) mission to study extreme poverty in Malaysia starting this week must take into account several local …
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