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21 hours ago · As states implement similar programs, Congressional lawmakers are divided as to whether a national program makes sense. An unequal distribution of wealth in the U.S. can make it so some children ...
1 day ago · Homes are not just where we eat and sleep, but one of the primary ways people build generational wealth in the U.S. But with home shortages and harsh climates, rural America's path to building ...
1 day ago · Inequality of wealth and income leaves the poorest segments without the means to fully meet their needs, even in countries where the average income is high. 13 Note that the data underlying our analysis measure individual private consumption and how it is distributed across population deciles. In addition to inequality, other factors, such as ...
1 day ago · Thinkers have worried about the ways in which class conflict may undermine democracy at least since Aristotle. In the United States, increases in economic inequality over the last several decades have been strongly correlated with increases in political polarization (McCarty et al., 2016). This association suggests another route by which ...
1 day ago · United Nations special rapporteur Philip Alston, following a fact finding mission to the United States in December 2017, said in his report that "the United States already leads the developed world in income and wealth inequality, and it is now moving full steam ahead to make itself even more unequal."
5 days ago · The top 1 percent wealthiest control as much as the bottom 90 percent of the country as a whole, while the bottom 50 percent direct about 8 percent of the wealth. So, issues of wealth inequality ...
5 days ago · This 2021 graph, created by the United States Federal Reserve, depicts the changing wealth of American families from the 1980s-2010s. The Federal Reserve (also known as The Fed) monitors U.S. financial policies, manages the country's money supply, and regulates the banking industry in order to stabilize the economy.
