What's the relationship between income inequality and economic growth? Is income inequality growing in Canada? Income inequality is the extent to which income is distributed [...]

By HOPE YEN The Associated Press Tuesday, September 28, 2010; 6:46 AM, From the Washington Post WASHINGTON -- The income gap between the richest and poorest Americans grew last year to its widest amount on record as young adults and children in particular struggled to stay afloat in the recession. T [...]

Median income began stagnating in the early 1970s, and income inequality started to surge in the early 1980s. The benefits of America's economic growth since then have [...]

Economic inequality (or "wealth and income differences") comprises all disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income. The term typically refers to inequality among [...]

The income gap between the richest and poorest Americans grew last year to its widest amount on record as young adults and children in particular struggled to stay [...]

Cheers, all, and welcome aboard to the week where your librarians alert you to the wide-ranging conspiracy of usually-conservative groups to hijack your educational institutions and prevent them from presenting viewpoints that differ from the group's narrowly-focused ideology. Yes, it's Banned Books [...]

Economic inequality (or "wealth and income differences") comprises Kuznets saw a curve-like relationship between level of income and inequality, now known as Kuznets curve. [...]

The income gap ? the disparity in earnings between the wealthiest and poorest Americans ? increased to the highest recorded level in 2009, according to the Census Bureau. The Associated Press reports on data from the 2009 American Community Survey released earlier today: The top-earning 20 percent o [...]

America's growing economic divide - resources for Journalists, Teachers, Policymakers, Citizens. By the Numbers. The latest and fullest data on income, wealth, CEO pay, etc. Compiled [...]

Economic inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of Kuznets saw a curve-like relationship between level of income and inequality, now known as Kuznets curve. [...]

The income concept used is the official US Census Bureau measure of pre-tax, post-transfer money income. idea of how much of income inequality is driven by these two factors. [...]

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WASHINGTON - The income gap between the richest and poorest Americans grew last year to its widest amount on record as young adults and children in particular struggled to stay afloat in the recession. [...]

Income inequality on the rise regardless of how it's measured As we show below, no matter which income definition is applied, the finding of increased inequality stands. [...]

Income inequality in the United States of America is the extent to which income, most commonly measured by household or individual, is distributed in an uneven manner, in the United [...]

I?m really glad to see Ed talking so much about the Living Wage in his speech. From the NPEN ebook (page 44): In the 1920s much of Labour?s economic thinking was rooted in theories of under-consumption. The argument was that as one becomes wealthier, one tends to save a greater proportion of one?s i [...]

President Obama gave an interview to Rolling Stone and actually said this: The idea that we've got a lack of enthusiasm in the Democratic base, that people are sitting on their hands complaining, is just irresponsible. . . . . If we want the kind of country that respects civil rights and civil liber [...]

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There's a new book out claiming to explain the source of America's striking income inequality. The huge?and expanding?gap between rich and poor in the U.S. has been vexing liberal political scientists and economists for some time; while such a large gap isn't unheard of, it's exceptional among industrialized countries. Now, Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson's Winner-Take-All-Politics, a synthesis of [...]

As activists, advocates and working families from across the country prepare to rally for good jobs in Washington on October 2, 2010, a new national poll conducted by Lake Research for the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) shows that the American public is overwhelmingly [...]

The list of MacArthur Foundation grant recipients is out. The $500,000 awards, spread over five years and often referred to colloquially as the "genius" grants, are a one-time massive investment in the work of an individual, unasked-for and unsupervised. In other words, they're a big honor, a huge s [...]

Inequality is a property of the distribution in a population of some (presumably valued) resource such as income or wealth but also cattle, wives (in [...]

Republicans and their angry, rich base must feel pleased as punch about these census figures: The income gap between the richest and poorest Americans grew last year to its widest amount on record as young adults and children in particular struggled to stay afloat in the recession. The top-earning 2 [...]

An Associated Press story currently getting big play on Yahoo! News runs under the headline, "Census Finds Record Gap Between Rich and Poor," and begins, "The income gap between the richest and poorest Americans grew last year to its widest amount on [...]

This post was contributed by Roberto Abadie (CUNY) A few years ago anthropologist Michaela di Leonardo invited anthropologists to focus on what she called ? exotics at home?. Her intention was to re-center anthropological inquiry, shifting the discipline?s emphasis on ?the other?, often living in re [...]

Top income and wages shares display a U-shaped pattern over the century. According to Kuznets' influential hypothesis, income inequality should [...]

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Slate's Timothy Noah is doing a multi-week feature on income inequality. The blogosphere, particularly the left-leaning portion, is taking note. Noah starts out at a point many liberals have been hammering for years: income inequality today is greater than in parts of the famously stratified Gilded Age. Toward the end of that era, "the richest 1 percent accounted for 18 percent of the nation's [...]