Income Inequality - Inequality.org
WEBOver 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 more accurate but ...
Global Inequality - Inequality.org
WEBGlobal 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 ...
Wealth Inequality - Inequality.org
WEBAccording to Institute for Policy Studies analysis of Forbes data, the combined wealth of all U.S. billionaires increased by $2.071 trillion (70.3 percent) between March 18, 2020 and October 15, 2021, from approximately $2.947 trillion to $5.019 trillion. Of the more than 700 U.S. billionaires, the richest five (Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark ...
Inequality.org
WEBAug 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, …
Gender Economic Inequality - Inequality.org
WEBGender 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.
Who Owns Almost All America’s Land? - Inequality.org
WEBWhite Americans, by comparison, own more than 98 percent of U.S. land amounting to 856 million acres with a total worth of over $1 trillion. CNN founder Ted Turner alone owns over 2 million acres of land according to Forbes magazine. In other words, one person owns nearly a quarter of what all black Americans combined own in rural land.
The Key to Distributing Wealth More Equitably - Inequality.org
WEBOct 4, 2019 · Simply this: Redistribution alone — via progressive tax rates — will never be enough to build and sustain a more equal society. We also need to focus on how societies predistribute our wealth. For minimum decency. we need a maximum wage. The redistribution impulse rests on the notion that we can …
Inequality and Covid-19 - Inequality.org
WEBAccording to APM Research Lab, white and Asian Americans have substantially lower Covid-19 mortality rates than those of other racial and ethnic groups. Between the start of the pandemic and October 2, 2022, indigenous people suffered 582 deaths per 100,000 people – more than twice the death rate for whites and Asians.
An Oligarchy Expert Answers Our Questions About Wealth and …
WEBApr 14, 2022 · Wealth tremendously concentrated in very few hands creates a special kind of empowerment and it can be used in a lot of different ways politically. Things get a little bit more complicated with the term “oligarchy.”. It has often been thought of as “rule by the few,” but, in Aristotle’s original formulation, it was “rule by the ...
Facts - Inequality.org
WEBThe 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.