Income Inequality

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BBC News
India
India election 2019: Congress pledges income for 50m families
BBC News - BBC World
Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has pledged to create "the world's largest minimum income scheme" if his party wins election. He said the Congress Party would guarantee an income for 50 million India's
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India
Pakistan Beats India In Happiness
Forbes - Panos Mourdoukoutas
When it comes to happiness Pakistan beats India big time.That’s according to the recently published World Happiness Report, which ranks Pakistan in the 67th position, and India in the 140th position—near
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African-American News
Why Can’t We Close the Racial Wealth Gap?
CityLab - Brentin Mock
A new study says that income inequality, not historic factors, feeds the present-day gulf in wealth between white and black households. If the college cheating scandal has reinforced anything, it’s that
Salaries & Wages
Wage gap between top employees and everyone else is 'off the chart'
yahoo.com - Adriana Belmonte
Income inequality is becoming a dominant topic of conversation, particularly as the 2020 presidential race heats up. Democratic candidates such as …
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Business (India)
The ‘pitchfork revolution’ is at the gates
thehindubusinessline.com - Venky Vembu
Growth is great, of course. But as the lessons of recent history show, it is a folly to ignore ‘income inequality’
Latinx
Unfair State Tax Codes Also Exacerbate Racial Inequity
commondreams.org - Misha Hill
The latest edition of ITEP’s Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States details how most state and local tax structures …
U.S. News & World Report
Economics
Economic Inequality: What It Is and How It Impacts You
U.S. News & World Report - Susannah Snider
It's nearly impossible to read the news these days without running across mentions of economic inequality. In recent months, politicians have debated …
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Sanjay Gupta
In HBO's 'One Nation Under Stress,' Dr. Sanjay Gupta Examines U.S. Drop in Life Expectancy
Cheddar
American life expectancy dropped for the third year in a row in 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center …
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Bottled Water
Income Inequality Or Spending Inequality, Which Tells Us More?
Forbes - Thomas Dichter
When it comes to the gap between the world’s rich and poor nations income inequality doesn’t quite capture the enormity of the problem. Looking at what people spend rather than what they make does more
Conservative View
People in wealthy countries want higher taxes on the rich, more welfare
hotair.com - John SextonPosted at 1:21 pm on March 20, 2019
Tuesday, Reuters released the results of a survey of 21 countries which found a majority of people want more taxes on the rich to pay for more …
The Conversation UK
Austerity
Ending austerity: make tax fairer and more transparent
The Conversation UK - Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson
To end austerity and make the economy work better for the whole country requires transforming the tax system. It is time for the UK to have a …
Marxism
LONSBERRY: Madison and Jefferson, or Marx and Engels?
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In America today, there are two warring concepts of government, one borne of the nation’s founding documents, and the other of “The Communist …
Liberal View
The federal minimum wage should be a robust national wage floor, not adjusted region by region
epi.org - www.epi.org
From time to time, politicians, policy analysts, and academics muse about whether the federal minimum wage should be set region by region, rather …
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Equality
The Rich Can Fight Inequality, Too
project-syndicate.org - Kaushik Basu
NEW DELHI – When wealthy people espouse left-wing causes, such as redistribution of wealth, those on the right often label them hypocrites. “If you …
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U.S. Census
A Wealthier Middle Class Is Emerging in Washington, DC, Study Finds
gobankingrates.com - Andrew DePietro
In the wake of the epic housing crash and continued growth in wealth inequality, America’s middle class has been facing a bleak financial future. …
Middle-class
Thomas L. Friedman: Lifting people back into the middle class
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Video Thomas L. Friedman: Lifting people back into the middle class Other videos in this series include: Why simple fixes don’t work anymore • An interview …
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Labor Economics
Service Workers Shall Inherit the City
Bloomberg - Conor Sen
American cities are following a new script. Over the past generation, high-cost cities like New York and San Francisco have been transformed by rising …
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Ayn Rand
What If Ayn Rand Was Right About Entrepreneurs and Inequality?
quillette.com - Cameron Hendy
Few public figures have managed to consistently attract both sheer adoration and abject disgust quite like Russian-American author Ayn Rand. Fewer …
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College Admissions Scandal
Why the college admissions scandal could lead to ‘the death of a nation’
MarketWatch - By Shawn Langlois
It’s been a tough week for the entitled. After the Justice Department this week announced the “largest college admissions scam ever prosecuted,” gasps …
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Opinion
Why the college scandal matters so much
The Washington Post - By Jennifer Rubin
The Post reports: The Justice Department on Tuesday charged 50 people — including two television stars — with participating in a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme that enabled privileged students with
Equality
Why Focus on Inequality is Counterproductive, an interview with Yaron Brook
spreaker.com - Yaron Brook
In this with host Chris Pareja, Yaron Brook explains why the obsession with income inequality is wrong and counterproductive. This program was aired …
Xinhua
U.S. income inequality continues to rise: human rights report - Xinhua
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BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Income inequality continued to rise in the United States, according to the Human Rights Record of the United States in …
Council on Foreign Relations
OECD
Inequality and Tax Rates: A Global Comparison
cfr.org - Andrew Chatzky
With economic inequality at an all-time high, some U.S. presidential candidates are proposing dramatic shifts to the U.S. tax code. How have similar …
GQadded this to News & Politics
Taxes
Local and State Taxes, Not Just The Trump Tax Plan, Are Making the Rich Richer Too
GQ - Mari Uyehara
News and Politics The system is increasingly stacked against the non-rich. By Mari Uyehara Facebook • Twitter • Email In recent years, something as mundane and prosaic as tax season has become refracted
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Bill Gates
WILLIAMS: Is income inequality fair?
torontosun.com - Walter E. Williams, Special to Postmedia Network
Some Americans have much higher income and wealth than others. Former President Barack Obama explained, “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.” An adviser to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Bill Nye
Brilliant Minds: Bill Nye Taps AOC To Save Humanity From Climate Change, Income Inequality
dailywire.com - Amanda Prestigiacomo
Do not fret, boys and girls: The brilliant mind of Bill Nye, a kids’ TV host, tapped Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), another brilliant mind, to …
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John McDonnell
Axe personal allowance and pay everyone £48 a week, says thinktank
The Guardian - Richard Partington Economics correspondent
The tax-free personal allowance, which rises to £12,500 in April, should be scrapped and replaced with a flat payment of £48 a week for every adult, according to radical proposals welcomed by shadow chancellor
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Ocasio-Cortez says she isn't worried about the rise of workplace robots
Fox News - Christopher Carbone
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D, N.Y., said workers should be excited by the prospect of job automation and blasted capitalism as irredeemable at the South By Southwest festival in Austin this weekend.
Independent Journal Review
Bill Nye
Bill Nye Praises Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 'She Sees That Fear Is Dividing Us'
Independent Journal Review - Louie Gasper
Bill Nye surprised Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Saturday to pledge his support of her climate change reform …
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Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell Defends Claim That Marijuana Could Be Tied to Violence
The Daily Beast
Author and New Yorker contributor Malcolm Gladwell has doubled down on his controversial article published last month that claims marijuana is …